When people think of computers, they picture smartphones, laptops, or even room-sized machines from the 1950s. But what if the world's first computer was actually built more than 2,000 years ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an ...

More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would not be matched for centuries. Hidden inside a corroded lump recovered from ...

A corroded early computer discovered in a shipwreck is challenging modern timelines of computing. New research now clarifies one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the Antikythera mechanism, ...