More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

WHEN a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900, it was the statues lying on the seabed that made the greatest ...

In the 120 years since its discovery, the Antikythera Mechanism has amazed and perplexed researchers and the general public. This ancient Greek hand-powered mechanical device is considered the world’s ...

Photo taken on Jan. 18, 2018 shows a reconstruction of the automatic servant of Philon at the Museum of Ancient Greek Technology in Athens, Greece. The Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, a new museum ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A mechanical brass calculator used by the ancient Greeks to predict solar and lunar eclipses was probably also used to set the dates for the first Olympic games, researchers said on ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Since its inception in 1867, The American Naturalist ...