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Mysteries

The Antikythera Mechanism: What New Scans Reveal About the Ancient Computer

A corroded bronze object recovered from a Greek shipwreck in 1901 turned out to be an astronomical calculator two thousand years ahead of its time. The latest imaging is filling in the last gaps.

Priya Mehta · May 19, 2026

Discoveries

Antikythera Fragment D Was Not a Fragment at All

A team at the University of Glasgow used neutron tomography to show that a small bronze lump dismissed as debris is actually a separate, simpler astronomical instrument.

Priya Mehta · May 7, 2026