More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would not be matched for centuries. Hidden inside a corroded lump recovered from ...

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 ...

In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings. But researchers ...

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A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. (This program is no longer available for streaming.) In 1900, a storm blew a ...