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

STANDFIRST For centuries, many of the world rsquo;s scientific breakthroughs have been credited almost exclusively to Europe.

More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would ...

Throughout time some people are remembered after they die for their achievements. But some individuals are celebrated both in life and death and they are especially important. What archaeologists ...

Long before the Roman Empire came along, the Ancient Greeks controlled much of southern Italy. From the 8th to the 5th centuries BC, intrepid Greek settlers transformed this region into a mosaic of ...

A Doric temple in Segesta, Sicily. Credit: Ludvig14, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Ancient Greek architecture is one of the aspects of ancient Greece that has shaped our modern world most. It is ...

Analog computing stands apart from digital systems in some interesting ways. Instead of crunching numbers through step-by-step algorithms and binary logic, analog computers model problems by ...

Divers exploring the centuries-old Antikythera wreck retrieved intact pieces of the ship and found artifacts that shed light on life aboard the craft. The Antikythera shipwreck dates back to the first ...

According to research cited by Nature and Smithsonian Magazine, the Antikythera Mechanism is recognized as the earliest known analog computer, dating back to around 100 BCE. It used intricate gears to ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings. But researchers ...