By building a digital model of the Antikythera Mechanism, scientists may have finally exposed a key function of the…
Marine archaeologists have found the partial remains of a 2,000-year-old skeleton while conducting an excavation at…
Discovered in an ancient shipwreck near Crete in 1901, the freakishly advanced Antikythera Mechanism has been called…
As if the freakishly advanced Antikythera Mechanism wasn't astounding enough, a new analysis suggests the…
X-rays and advanced photography have uncovered the true complexity of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a device…
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Greek fire. Damascus steel. These are two technological innovations whose secrets are said to be lost to time. Even…
The Antikythera mechanism, one of the world's oldest known gadgets, has coughed up another secret. In addition to…
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The Antikythera Mechanism is the world's oldest computer, calculating the stars 2000 years ago. Now modern…
In this io9 flashback, we revisit a post about how X-rays and advanced photography uncovered the true complexity of…
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Sometimes archaeologists find artifacts so mind-blowing they seem like evidence of lost civilizations or alien…
X-rays and advanced photography have uncovered the true complexity of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a…
The video shows off how it worked. Turning the dial shifted the moon, the sun and planets around the Earth and let…
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At their best, gadgets transcend the world of technology and become "living" works of art. The following ten gadgets…
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They did have computers back in the days before The Beatles, around the second century B.C., and now scientists…