Stunned researchers discover that, in addition to accurately tracing the movement of the sun, moon and predicting when eclipses would occur, the Antikythera Mechanism created by the Ancient Greeks around 100-200BC also tracked the movements of Venus and Saturn. “Our work reveals the Antikythera Mechanism as a beautiful conception, translated by superb engineering into a device of genius,” the study concludes about the creation considered to be the world’s first computer.
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The Antikythera mechanism, built-in Greece, is the oldest mechanical ancient computer to be discovered worldwide and was…
At least four migrants have died after their boat was wrecked on an islet north…
The Antikythera mechanism, built in Greece, is the oldest mechanical ancient computer to be discovered worldwide, and…
Stunned researchers discover that, in addition to accurately tracing the movement of the sun, moon and predicting when eclipses would occur, the Antikythera Mechanism created by the Ancient Greeks around 100-200BC also tracked the movements of Venus and Saturn. “Our work reveals the Antikythera Mechanism as a beautiful conception, translated by superb engineering into a device of genius,” the study concludes about the creation considered to be the world’s first computer.
Scientists and experts have presented the Greek island of Antikythera as “the place that can give the solution to climate change.”
The Antikythera mechanism, built in Greece, is the oldest mechanical ancient computer to be discovered worldwide, and…
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The Antikythera mechanism, built in Greece, is the oldest mechanical ancient computer to be discovered worldwide, and…
A wealth of treasures brought to light from the Antikythera Wreck The infamous Antikythera Shipwreck…
The head of the Hellenic Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities Dr. Angeliki Simosi announced the second…