In a glass case in Cairo, a 5,000-year-old stone disc carved from fragile schist looks less like a ritual object and more ...

The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ancient artisans could really have built it. Yet as new dives, new simulations, ...

Special techniques used to study ripples in the universe may have helped researchers solve an ancient mystery. Statistical modeling methods that were developed to study gravitational waves have been ...

In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...

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. But researchers ...