Recovered from a first-century B.C. shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, a corroded lump of bronze gears has forced ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Ancient Greek engineers created a breathtaking astronomical machine so advanced it inspired Indiana Jones and still astonishes scientists today.

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: In 2024, scientists from the University of Glasgow leveraged statistical methods like Bayesian analysis—as well as techniques developed to study ...

Several millennia ago, a Greek ship sank off the coast of an island in the Aegean Sea called Antikythera. It was carrying statues, coins, and one mysterious shoebox-sized object. Watch editors Andrew ...