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.

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

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 ...

Throughout history, there have been intriguing references in ancient texts to devices and mechanisms that bear a striking resemblance to modern computers. These descriptions, while often shrouded in ...

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, ...

Scientists recently learned an ancient computer that predicted eclipses and other astronomical events also shows the cycle of the Olympics. The inclusion of the data about the Olympic Games on what is ...