LONDON, ENGLAND—Living Science reports that researchers from University College London believe they have digitized the entire Antikythera Equipment. About a third of the 2,100-year-old corroded bronze machine was found in 1900 on a Roman shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. Its complex, hand-held gears are thought to have been positioned to display the motions of the five known planets, the sun, the phases of the moon, and the solar and lunar eclipses around the Earth, compared to the time of events. such as the Olympic Games. The researchers constructed the digital version with information from inscriptions found on the equipment, a mathematical model of the motion of the planets around the Earth developed by the Greek philosopher Parmenides, and previous research on possible work. be at the machine, including a replica built by Michael Wright of the London Museum of Science. Team members now plan to build a physical version of their hobby to see if it really worked, and then try to build a replica with old technologies. “There is no evidence that the ancient Greeks were able to build something like this,” said materials scientist Adam Wojcik. “The only way to test it is if they could try to build it in the ancient Greek way. ”Read the original scholarly article about this research in Scientific Reports. To read about another discovery from the wreck Antikythera, go to “Antikythera Man,” one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s top 10 discoveries of 2016.