Antikythera Mechanism

Divers Find 2,000-Year-Old ‘Computer’ That Calculated Position of Sun, Moon, Planets Like Clockwork

A lump of corroded metal was pulled from the ocean floor in 1901, along with an extraordinary cache of monumental Greek art artifacts. Found near the Greek island of Antikythera, ...

February 4, 2024BY Michael Wing
World’s Oldest Computer May Have Been Built to Predict Future (Video)

In 1901, divers exploring off the coast of Greece came upon a vast sunken treasure, and amidst the ...

June 17, 2016BY Epoch Videos
Some People Are Saying This Ancient Greek Sculpture Depicts a Laptop

The ancient Greeks are credited with inventing at least one "computer," the Antikythera mechanism (although to be fair, ...

February 4, 2016BY Jack Phillips

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