The star catalog was made by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus around 162 and 127 BCE, 1,400 years before the telescope. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Email address Sign up Thank you!

The Antikythera mechanism was an ancient Greek analog computer used to track and predict celestial motion. Pieces of the device at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece, are seen here.

For scientists and historians, the device represents a vivid example of how advanced ancient Greek astronomy and engineering really were. An Accidental Dive Into Ancient Innovation.

Inscriptions deciphered in 2016 revealed that Venus and Saturn were represented by mathematical cycles not previously known from ancient Greek astronomy. For example, the Greeks are known to have ...

Archaeologists and divers returned to the 2,000-year-old Antikythera wreck in Greece ... helped with astronomy calculations and later inspired the 2023 film “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” ...

THE traditional view that the knowledge of astronomy of the Greece of classical times had been derived from Egypt, ... Astronomy in Ancient Egypt. Nature 144, 1041–1042 (1939) ...