Historians think the 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of celestial bodies. A new digital simulation suggests that its gears may have frequently malfunctioned ...

Researchers shed new light on how the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism modeled solar time with remarkable accuracy.

It’s likely that many treasures remain. Half of the Antikythera mechanism is missing, for example, while many pieces of bronze statues, including arms, feet and weapons, were recovered without ...

In 1901, divers looking for sponges off the coast of the Greek island, Antikythera, discovered a mechanical device among the ruins of a sunken ship. The mysterious object made of bronze was ...

The Antikythera mechanism was built around ... It was uncovered alongside other artifacts, such as a board game, a bronze arm once attached to a statue, a marble statue head of Hercules, and ...

The researchers note that it is possible that current measurements of the Antikythera Mechanism's gears and teeth are off. After 2,000 years underwater, the bronze of the mechanism has turned into ...

Granted, not every artifact was as complex as the Antikythera mechanism ... have been a source of heat for working the brass and bronze materials of the original. There had to be workbenches ...