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

To pass the time the ancient Greeks played various board and dice games which have been attested to in various sources.

Researchers used a canoe replica to trace Paleolithic migration from Taiwan to Japan, showing how early humans crossed seas ...

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.

Believed by some to be an ancient Greek "computer", it was thought to track the cycles of the Moon, Sun and planets - and even predict eclipses. But now, new research has brought the enigma back ...

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But some ancient portraits must have been fairly accurate depictions of their subjects. A Greek poem from the 1st century CE describes a boxer who became so disfigured by his sporting profession ...

An ancient Greek shipwreck where a remarkable analog computer was found has yielded fascinating new insights. The remains of the Roman-era shipwreck—dated to the 1st century B.C.—were ...

Secrets of mysterious Greek computer revealed using methods for studying Universe Findings shed light on likely function of one part of the device that had eroded over years Vishwam Sankaran ...

Methods used in astronomy have helped unravel mysteries of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism – an ancient astronomical calculator made at the end of the 2nd century BC. Researchers from ...

Methods used in astronomy have helped unravel mysteries of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism – an ancient astronomical calculator made at the end of the 2nd century BC. Researchers from the ...