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Ancient Greeks built a 'first computer' that still stumps us

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...
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That “impossible” Greek computer is real, and its secrets keep spilling out

The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ancient artisans could really have built it. Yet as new dives, new simulations, ...
Geeky Gadgets

The Mysterious 2,000-Year-Old Analog Computer That Baffles Scientists

In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...
Princeton University

In this engineering and humanities ‘mashup’ course, students learn new ways of thinking from builders of the ancient world. Even Galileo weighs in.

The ingenuity of the construction techniques used by Greek builders 2,000 years ago continues to dazzle the world. What did these ancient engineers get right? And how does looking to the past help ...
Greek Reporter

World’s First Robot Was Made in Ancient Greece

The world’s first robot operated in Ancient Greece—the automatic maid was the name of a technological miracle during the ...
WRBL

An app shows how ancient Greek sites looked thousands of years ago. It’s a glimpse of future tech

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Tourists at the ...