Chalk up another Olympian feat to a mechanical gadget discovered more than a century ago in a 2,100-year-old shipwreck. Scientists over the past decades have determined that the device was used to ...
The world's oldest analog computer, the Antikythera Machine, is a gear-type machine that is said to have been manufactured from the 3rd century BC to the middle of the 1st century BC. The 'Antikythera ...
March 12 (UPI) --Scientists have reconstructed a cosmological model to fit the complex arithmetic of the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's first analogue computer. One of the most sophisticated ...
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 ...
The world's first known scientific instrument plotted the positions of celestial bodies nineteen years into the future – and as an added bonus, it kept track of upcoming Olympics. "The maker took ...
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 ...
Like the Babylonians, the Greeks paid close attention to the night sky. Our nearest celestial neighbor, the Moon, was particularly important to them from a planning perspective. For instance, debts ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harrison Ford takes his final adventure as the swashbuckling archeologist in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," a mission to ...