Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Antikythera Mechanism, sometimes described as the world's oldest computer, on display at the Archaeological Museum in Athens.

For more than a century, one of history’s greatest technological mysteries sat hidden beneath the sea. When historians began studying a strange collection of corroded bronze gears recovered from an ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Special techniques used to study ripples in the universe may have ...

The calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism, was discovered in 1901 at the site of a shipwreck off a Greek Island with the same name. The breakthrough in determining the mechanism's true purpose, ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism, often described as the world’s first computer, was a sophisticated bronze device that modelled the cosmos. Researchers have assumed that pointers were used to ...

I have reading up on the the "glory days" of the microcomputer. You know, the C64 and Amiga, Atari ST and 8 bit series, etc. Are these systems of any use these days? Would it possible to connect to ...