Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The world’s oldest known computer lay submerged for more than 2,000 years off the treacherous coast ...

Ancient Greek engineers created a breathtaking astronomical machine so advanced it inspired Indiana Jones and still ...

Scientists are one step closer to unlocking the secrets of the 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, considered the world’s first computer, thanks to a new computer-generated reconstruction of the ...

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but researchers have finally unlocked an understanding of an ancient mechanical work that has been arrested for about 2,000 years. Discovered more than a ...

In the spring of 1900, sponge divers discovered the Antikythera Mechanism in a sunken ship in the waters of the tiny island of Antikythera, halfway between Crete and Peloponnesos. The reason why the ...

When Dimitrios Kondos and his crew of sponge divers found the Antikythera shipwreck in 1900, they weren't trying to make history or upend archaeologists' understanding of high technology in the late ...

The Antikythera mechanism — an ancient shoebox-sized device that was used to track the motions of the sun, moon and planets — followed the Greek lunar calendar, not the solar one used by the Egyptians ...

With all the trained academics who have pored over the Antikythera mechanism in the 120 years since it was pulled from the Mediterranean Sea, you’d think all of the features of the ancient analog ...