Chalk up another Olympian feat to a mechanical gadget discovered more than a century ago in a 2,100-year-old shipwreck. Scientists over the past decades have determined that the device was used to ...

The world's oldest analog computer, the Antikythera Machine, is a gear-type machine that is said to have been manufactured from the 3rd century BC to the middle of the 1st century BC. The 'Antikythera ...

The world's first known scientific instrument plotted the positions of celestial bodies nineteen years into the future – and as an added bonus, it kept track of upcoming Olympics. "The maker took ...

Researchers at UCL have solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism, a hand-powered mechanical device that was used to ...

A 2,100-year-old bronze and iron computer that predicted eclipses and other astronomical events also showed the cycle of the Greek Olympics and the related games that led up to it, researchers ...

12:29, Tue, Aug 29, 2023 Updated: 17:58, Tue, Aug 29, 2023 Archaeologists working in Greece have found countless relics over the years. The country was once home to the Ancient Greek civilisation, a ...

When Dimitrios Kondos and his crew of sponge divers found the Antikythera shipwreck in 1900, they weren't trying to make history or upend archaeologists' understanding of high technology in the late ...

Harrison Ford takes his final adventure as the swashbuckling archeologist in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," a mission to track down the titular dial that "could change the course of history, ...

The world watched in astonishment last week as NASA delivered its one-ton Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars with astonishing precision, hitting a target area just 12 x 4 miles wide after eight ...

CHANG: In this installment called "Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny," the object at the center of the action is - you guessed it - a dial. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF ...