Articles for tag: Ancient Technology, Antikythera mechanism, Archaeological Discoveries, early computing, Greek history

What Was the Antikythera Mechanism Really Used For?

What Was the Antikythera Mechanism Really Used For?

Jan Otte

Picture this: you’re turning a simple bronze handle, and suddenly the entire cosmos begins to move before your eyes. The Sun traces its annual path, the Moon cycles through its phases, and distant planets dance their mysterious patterns across artificial heavens. This isn’t science fiction. This was reality for someone living over two thousand years ...

Detailed close-up of interlocking gears and cogs in a complex mechanical system.

What Researchers Found Inside a 2,000-Year-Old Shipwreck Computer

Suhail Ahmed

  Picture yourself plunging through Mediterranean waters, expecting another routine sponge-diving expedition. Instead, you stumble upon bronze fragments that will challenge everything historians believed about ancient technology. Captain Dimitrios Kontos and a crew of sponge divers from Symi island discovered the Antikythera wreck in early 1900, and recovered artefacts during the first expedition with the ...