Engineers and mathematicians have attempted to reconstruct the assembly of cogs, wheels and levers, and still cannot understand the complexity of the Antikythera Mechanism THE remains of a ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have been stunned for years by what they describe as the world's oldest analogue computer that was used in ancient Greece. Ancient Greece has, over the years, turned up a wealth of ...

The ancient Greeks lived from 700 to 480 BC and are known for the many breakthroughs they oversaw in the arts and sciences. Perhaps one of their lasting creations is what is known as the polis or city ...

An Ancient Computer That Predicted the Cosmos Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera around ...

The mystique of the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge has long stoked people’s imaginations. Theories as to what the Neolithic monument was used for include everything from a burial site to a place ...

More than a century since one of the most remarkable scientific objects of antiquity was discovered, experts are hoping to reveal more secrets of the deep using the latest in diving technology. Greek ...

An ancient hand-powered mechanical device for predicting astronomical events has been recreated, offering a fresh understanding of how it worked. The Antikythera Mechanism is at least 2,000 years old ...

An astronomical instrument built by the Ancient Greeks in the 2nd century BC has turned out to be a complex computer for calculating the relative position of the sun, the moon and the planets.