Thanks to high-tech scanning, 2,000-year-old inscriptions on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer," can be read more clearly than ever before, revealing more information about the ...

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...

Methods used in astronomy have helped unravel mysteries of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism – an ancient astronomical calculator made at the end of the 2nd century BC. Researchers from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover how the Antikythera Mechanism, the oldest known computing device, predicts solar eclipses using ancient Greek astronomy. The device ... contained more than 30 bronze gearwheels and was ...

The Google Doodle for November 5, 2018 celebrates the Greek computer scientist Michael Dertouzos on what would have been his 82nd birthday. Dertouzos served as the director of MIT’s Laboratory for ...

The professor led the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nearly 30 years GREEK web whizz Michael Dertouzos is being honoured with a Google Doodle on what ...