APTOPIX GREECE ANCIENT COMPUTER(01 of18)
Open Image ModalA fragment of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, believed to be the earliest surviving mechanical computing device, is seen at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. The bronze system of cogs and wheels was found in a Roman wreck off southern Greece in 1900. It is the focus of a two-day conference starting in Athens late Thursday, with the participation of scientists from Greece, Britain, the U.S. and other countries. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
GREECE ANCIENT COMPUTER(02 of18)
Open Image ModalA fragment of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, believed to be the earliest surviving mechanical computing device, is seen at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. The bronze system of cogs and wheels was found in a Roman wreck off southern Greece in 1900. It is the focus of a two-day conference starting in Athens late Thursday, with the participation of scientists from Greece, Britain, the U.S. and other countries. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
GREECE-ARCHEOLOGY- SCIENCE- HISTORY -SEA(03 of18)
Open Image ModalTO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SOPHIE MAKRIS - A picture taken at the Archaeological Museum in Athens on September 14, 2014 shows a piece of the so-called Antikythera Mechanism, a 2nd-century BC device known as the world\'s oldest computer, which was discovered by sponge divers in 1900 off a remote Greek island in the Aegean,. The mechanism is a complex mechanical computer which tracked astronomical phenomena and the cycles of the Solar System . AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI (Photo credit should read LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:LOUISA GOULIAMAKI via Getty Images)
Greece Ancient Computer(04 of18)
Open Image ModalFragments of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, believed to be the earliest surviving mechanical computing device, is displayed at the National Archaeological Museum, in Athens, Thursday, June 9 , 2016. An international team of scientists says a decade\'s painstaking work on the corroded fragments found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has deciphered roughly 500 words of text that explained the workings of the complex machine, described as the world;s first mechanical computer. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
GREECE ANCIENT COMPUTER(05 of18)
Open Image ModalFragments of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, believed to be the earliest surviving mechanical computing device, are seen at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. The bronze system of cogs and wheels was found in a Roman wreck off southern Greece in 1900. It is the focus of a two-day conference starting in Athens Thursday, with the participation of scientists from Greece, Britain, the U.S. and other countries. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Greece Ancient Computer(06 of18)
Open Image ModalA Fragment of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, believed to be the earliest surviving mechanical computing device, is displayed at the National Archaeological Museum, in Athens, Thursday, June 9 , 2016. An international team of scientists says a decade\'s painstaking work on the corroded fragments found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has deciphered roughly 500 words of text that explained the workings of the complex machine, described as the world;s first mechanical computer. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Greece Ancient Computer(07 of18)
Open Image ModalA fragment of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, believed to be the earliest surviving mechanical computing device, is displayed at the National Archaeological Museum, in Athens, Thursday, June 9 , 2016. An international team of scientists says a decade\'s painstaking work on the corroded fragments found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has deciphered roughly 500 words of text that explained the workings of the complex machine, described as the world;s first mechanical computer. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Greece Ancient Computer(08 of18)
Open Image ModalAlexander Jones speaks behind a possible reconstruction of the more than 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism during a press conference in Athens, Thursday, June 9 , 2016. An international team of scientists says a decade\'s painstaking work on the corroded fragments found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has deciphered roughly 500 words of text that explained the workings of the complex machine, described as the world;s first mechanical computer. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
GREECE-ARCHAEOLOGY/ANTIKYTHERA-MECHANISM(09 of18)
Open Image ModalFragments of the ancient Antikythera Mechanism are displayed at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece June 9, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY (credit:Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters)
GREECE-ARCHAEOLOGY/ANTIKYTHERA-MECHANISM(10 of18)
Open Image ModalVisitors look at the displayed fragments of the ancient Antikythera Mechanism at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece June 9, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis (credit:Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters)
GREECE-ARCHAEOLOGY/ANTIKYTHERA-MECHANISM(11 of18)
Open Image ModalA fragment of the ancient Antikythera Mechanism is displayed at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece June 9, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis (credit:Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters)
Greece Ancient Computer(12 of18)
Open Image ModalUniversity of Athens professor Xenophon Moussas points at a possible reconstruction of the more than 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism during a press conference in Athens, Thursday, June 9 , 2016. An international team of scientists says a decade\'s painstaking work on the corroded fragments found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has deciphered roughly 500 words of text that explained the workings of the complex machine, described as the world;s first mechanical computer. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Greece Ancient Computer(13 of18)
Open Image ModalUniversity of Athens professor Xenophon Moussas speaks behind a possible reconstruction of the more than 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism during a press conference in Athens, on Thursday, June 9 , 2016. An international team of scientists says a decade\'s painstaking work on the corroded fragments found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has deciphered roughly 500 words of text that explained the workings of the complex machine, described as the world;s first mechanical computer. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Greece Ancient Computer(14 of18)
Open Image ModalAlexander Jones, center, Mike Edmunds, right, and Yanis Bitsakis sit behind a possible reconstruction of the more than 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism during a press conference in Athens, Thursday, June 9 , 2016. An international team of scientists says a decade\'s painstaking work on the corroded fragments found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has deciphered roughly 500 words of text that explained the workings of the complex machine, described as the world;s first mechanical computer. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
GREECE-ARCHEOLOGY- SCIENCE- HISTORY -SEA(15 of18)
Open Image ModalTO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SOPHIE MAKRIS - A picture taken at the Archaeological Museum in Athens on September 14, 2014 shows pieces of the so-called Antikythera Mechanism, a 2nd-century BC device known as the world\'s oldest computer, which was discovered by sponge divers in 1900 off a remote Greek island in the Aegean,. The mechanism is a complex mechanical computer which tracked astronomical phenomena and the cycles of the Solar System . AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI (Photo credit should read LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:LOUISA GOULIAMAKI via Getty Images)
GREECE-ARCHEOLOGY- SCIENCE- HISTORY -SEA(16 of18)
Open Image ModalTO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SOPHIE MAKRIS - A visitor walks past a reconstruction of the the so-called Antikythera Mechanism, a 2nd-century BC device known as the world\'s oldest computer, which was discovered by sponge divers in 1900 off a remote Greek island in the Aegean, at the Archaeological Museum in Athens on September 14, 2014 . The mechanism is a complex mechanical computer which tracked astronomical phenomena and the cycles of the Solar System . AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI (Photo credit should read LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:LOUISA GOULIAMAKI via Getty Images)
A reconstruction of Antikythera Mechanis(17 of18)
Open Image ModalAthens, GREECE: A reconstruction of Antikythera Mechanism is on display at the exhibition of Ancient Greek Technology in Athens, part of the 2nd International Conference on the ancient technologym, 17 October 2005. The Antikythera Mechanism, is a unique find and the most sophisticated device preserved from ancient Greece(1st c.BC). It consists of at least 29 gears of various sizes that were made to move simultaneusly via a handle. Among them is a differential gear. According to scholars, it is an astronomical instrument of great precision. AFP PHOTO/Louisa Gouliamaki (Photo credit should read LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:LOUISA GOULIAMAKI via Getty Images)
The Antikythera mechanism, 205 BC(18 of18)
Open Image ModalThe Antikythera mechanism, 205 BC. Found in the collection of National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Artist : Historic Object. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images) (credit:Heritage Images via Getty Images)