| CARDIFF, Wales, July 31 (UPI) -- An ancient Greek mechanical device regarded by some experts as the world's first computer may have predicted solar eclipses, studies indicate. SAVE MONEY ON TRAVEL DEALS The Greek device, referred to as the Antikythera Mechanism, may have also arraigned the calendar in the four-year intervals of the Olympiad, a four-year period affiliated with the Olympic Games of Classical Greece, The New York Times reported Thursday. New information about the Antikythera Mechanism was published Wednesday in the journal Nature after a study headed by filmmaker and math expert Tony Freeth of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project, in Cardiff, Wales, the Times said. Experts said the idea for the ancient device may have come from the colonies of Corinth, Greece. The study suggests there is a connection between the device and ancient Greek scientist Archimedes, who studied in Syracuse, Italy, in the third century B.C. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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