In 1901, divers sheltering from a storm off a tiny Greek island surfaced with a shoebox-sized clump of green metal. Inside were dozens of precision gears cut to model the heavens — a device so advanced nothing like it would appear again for 1,400 years. Nobody has fully explained how the ancient Greeks built it.
BBC REEL's tight introduction to why the Antikythera Mechanism breaks the timeline of technology. Start here.
Woods Hole on the Roman-era wreck itself — the statues, the jewelry, and the divers who kept returning in canvas suits to a grave 45 meters down.
World of Antiquity walks through what the device is, what it isn't, and why 'ancient aliens' claims miss the far stranger human truth.
The definitive overview: 82 surviving fragments, at least 30 bronze gears the size of coins, and 120 years of scholars trying to read it.
Dr. Tony Freeth — the researcher who cracked much of the gearing — presents the international team's findings at Stanford.
How X-ray CT scans peered inside the corrosion and revealed a device that tracked planets, moon phases, eclipses — and the Olympic calendar.
In 2021, a UCL team announced the first model matching all the physical evidence — reconstructing the mechanical Cosmos on the mechanism's missing front face.
Machinist Clickspring attempts to recreate the mechanism using nothing but techniques available in 100 BC — and keeps discovering how it was actually made.