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

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 ...

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

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic technological artifacts in human history. Hidden among statues, coins, glassware, ...

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 ...

In 1900 a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera Diving the next day they discovered a 2000 yearold Greek ...

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 ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

It comes just weeks after another major Egyptian discovery, which marked only the second royal tomb found since King Tutankhamun's over 100 years ago. In February, archaeologists uncovered King ...

Ancient manuscripts detailing the events during ... Augustus in 14AD and finishes with Nero's suicide 54 years later. In Book 15, the historian discusses the Great Fire of Rome in 54AD, shortly ...

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