A remote Greek island is offering free houses and thousands of dollars in cash for young families to move there so they can ...

For the first time, more than 80 objects from the Antikythera Shipwreck are exhibited in Athens, in the most complete ...

The tiny island of Antikythera is offering incentives to families and skilled workers to relocate there, including free food, ...

When winter draws in on Antikythera, the already meagre population of the isolated Greek island shrinks to almost nothing. "There are 20 to 25 of us, no children, no bakery," said local leader Giorgos ...

In 1901, researchers discovered what's now known as the Antikythera mechanism in a sunken shipwreck, an ancient artifact that dates back to the second century BC, making it the world's "oldest ...

And yet, they built. Granted, not every artifact was as complex as the Antikythera mechanism, but still, this ancient astronomical computer exists, and must have come from someone’s workshop.

The Antikythera Mechanism has baffled experts since it was found on a Roman-era shipwreck in Greece in 1901. The hand-powered Ancient Greek device is thought to have been used to predict eclipses ...

In 2020, new X-ray images of one of the mechanism's rings, known as the calendar ring, revealed fresh details of regularly spaced holes that sit beneath the ring. Since the ring was broken and ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is a mysterious ancient device used to calculate lunar cycles, planet motions, and more. Over 2,000-years-old, it was far more advanced than any other technology of its time.

The Antikythera mechanism (/ˌæntɪkɪˈθɪərə/ AN-tih-kih-THEER-ə) is an ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions ...