The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Thanks to high-tech scanning, 2,000-year-old inscriptions on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer," can be read more clearly than ever before, revealing more information about the ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have been stunned for years by what they describe as the world's oldest analogue computer that was used in ancient Greece. Ancient Greece has, over the years, turned up a wealth of ...

The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ancient artisans could really have built it. Yet as new dives, new simulations, ...

More than a century since one of the most remarkable scientific objects of antiquity was discovered, experts are hoping to reveal more secrets of the deep using the latest in diving technology. Greek ...

An ancient Greek "computer" used to calculate the movements of the sun, moon and planets has been linked to Archimedes after scientists deciphered previously hidden inscriptions on the device. X-ray ...

Methods used in astronomy have helped unravel mysteries of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism – an ancient astronomical calculator made at the end of the 2nd century BC. Researchers from the ...

An astronomical instrument built by the Ancient Greeks in the 2nd century BC has turned out to be a complex computer for calculating the relative position of the sun, the moon and the planets.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have been stunned for years by what they describe as the world's oldest analogue computer that was used in ancient Greece. Ancient Greece has, over the years, turned up a wealth of ...