The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

very much like the inside of a modern wind-up alarm clock.” Widely considered the inventor, or father, of trigonometry, Hipparchus may have had a hand in creating the Antikythera mechanism.

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When the Antikythera mechanism was first discovered ... appeared in 1931 and was considered one of the signs of the “modern” age. Yet, the world had already seen this technology back in ...

The ancient Minoan palace of Zominthos on Crete located about 1,200 meters (nearly 4,000 feet) above sea level shows that Minoans were not just seafarers but highlanders too. Discovered in 1984 and ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...