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The Antikythera mechanism is over 2,000 years old. Who built this device, and why, and how do we know? What's its purpose, and how does it function? And is it really even a computer at all?

Even though the two thousand year-old Antikythera Mechanism has been touted as the world’s first computer, its true function was arguably that of the world’s first ‘STEM’ project.

Since then, the Return to Antikythera project has recovered numerous additional items, and the team believes there could be hundreds more buried beneath the sediment. For instance, the 2014–2016 ...

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical analog computer (as opposed to digital computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the ...

It was the spring of 1900 when a stern-faced captain named Dimitrios Kontos, who led a team of equally stern-looking sponge divers, dropped anchor off Antikythera’s coast to wait out a bad storm ...

The Antikythera mechanism was likely built sometime between 200 BCE and 60 BCE. However, in February 2022, Freeth suggested that the famous Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes (sometimes ...

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Antikythera Shipwreck Excavation Recovers Priceless Bronze Arm From Ancient Greek Wreckage Published Oct 04, 2017 at 3:05 PM EDT Updated Oct 04, 2017 at 6:21 PM EDT An diver recovers a bronze arm.