In the summer of 1900, a group of sponge divers off the coast of Antikythera, a Greek island, stumbled upon a shipwreck that ...

The Antikythera Mechanism in National Archaeological Museum, Athens (Source: Wikimedia Commons) The Antikythera Mechanism is older than the Colosseum and older than the Christian Gospels.

While archeologists still can’t definitively point to Odysseus’ existence, additional discoveries in the form of two late Hellenistic inscriptions illustrate the mythological figure’s ...

Discover the ancient technology that gave Kublai Khan a strategic edge in conquering China and shaping the course of history.