A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, ...

A scientist has made a bold claim about the location of the Garden of Eden. He used Medieval world maps to find the Biblical ...

What's more, this group believes the ancient art holds elegant solutions ... room-only audiences of paper folders and math and computer-science students. This past September, he organized the ...

Using computer ... evidence of an ancient technology is rare, says professor of Greek and Roman studies John Humphrey of the University of Calgary, who recently published a book on the subject.

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

Despite the fact that the decipherment of ancient writing systems is considered a fascinating ... a scholar who deals with linguistics, history, cryptology, computer science – anything related to the ...

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 ...

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

long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges traditional views that disparities in wealth emerged ... New Computer Model ...

With the nation's growing emphasis on cultural heritage preservation, the ancient book restoration industry is experiencing unprecedented opportunities for development. "The demand comes not only ...