Unravel the mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism, the ancient world's first computer. Discover its astronomical secrets, ...

For more than a century, one of history’s greatest technological mysteries sat hidden beneath the sea. When historians began studying a strange collection of corroded bronze gears recovered from an ...

The calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism, was discovered in 1901 at the site of a shipwreck off a Greek Island with the same name. The breakthrough in determining the mechanism's true purpose, ...

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When we read about the lives of people from the ancient past, we naturally want to know what they looked like. But how do we find this out? In recent years, computer-assisted reconstructions of the ...

A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. (This program is no longer available for streaming.) In 1900, a storm blew a ...