The Greeks Built an Impossible Computer 2,000 Years Ago. Scientists Are Still Uncovering Its Secrets.

An ancient Greek machine built 2,000 years ago shouldn’t exist, yet scientists are still uncovering how this mysterious ...
CounterPunch

The Promethean Antikythera Computer of Greek Civilization

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 ...
CRN

Ancient Greek Computer Set Dates For Olympics

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, ...
Astronomy

Dissecting an ancient computer

The Antikythera mechanism, a first-century BC Greek device recovered from a shipwreck, is an analog computer designed to track and predict celestial movements, including the phases and orbit of the ...
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2,000 years ago, Greeks built a machine like the first computer

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 ...
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3 advanced inventions discovered in ancient ruins that shouldn't exist

An Ancient Computer That Predicted the Cosmos Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera around ...
Hyperallergic

Ancient Antikythera Mechanism, the “World’s First Computer,” Is Reconstructed

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 ...
Geeky Gadgets

The Mysterious 2,000-Year-Old Analog Computer That Baffles Scientists

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 ...
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Puzzle Of Mechanical “First Computer” From Ancient Greece Solved By New Digital Model

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
PBS

The Ancient Computer and the Mars Rover

The world watched in astonishment last week as NASA delivered its one-ton Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars with astonishing precision, hitting a target area just 12 x 4 miles wide after eight ...
PBS

Ancient Computer

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 ...