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

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

In 1901, divers recovered a shoebox-size, gear-filled box from a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. Ever since, the enigmatic box—known as the Antikythera Mechanism—has ...

Scientists have finally demystified the incredible workings of a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator built by ancient Greeks. A new analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism, a clock-like machine ...

Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later. A Roman shipmaster inadvertently did ...

Cranes first appeared in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago, but new research suggests a primitive lifting machine—a kind of forerunner to the crane—was in use around 150 years earlier. The ancient ...

GREECE: A MECHANICAL brass calculator used by the ancient Greeks to predict solar and lunar eclipses was probably also used … GREECE:A MECHANICAL brass calculator used by the ancient Greeks to predict ...

C. Michael Sampson receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for 'the Books of Karanis,' a project that studies fragmentary Greek literature from the Egyptian ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Machine learning techniques are providing new tools that could help archaeologists understand the past — ...