The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed ...

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic ...

Greece's Delphi oracle is the inspiration behind an immersive art installation by data artist Charles Sandison that's aimed ...

Using computer imaging techniques previously ... Physical evidence of an ancient technology is rare, says professor of Greek and Roman studies John Humphrey of the University of Calgary, who ...

For some time you will close your eyes and still be able to relive the startling moment you first saw this ancient stone city ... his coins—“friend of the Greeks”—which might explain ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...

Quantum physics gets a bad rap. The behaviour of the atoms and particles it describes is often said to be weird, and that weirdness has given rise to all manner of esoteric notions – that we ...

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It took Andrew Carol 30 days to build a working model of the Antikythera Mechanism—the ancient Greek world's most ...