Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer Found in Shipwreck Cutting-edge gravitational wave research may have just helped solve a 2,000-year-old mystery.
In 1901, researchers discovered what's now known as the Antikythera mechanism in a sunken shipwreck, an ancient artifact that dates back to the second century BC, making it the world's "oldest computer."