More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

ATHENS, Greece — When you’re trying to fathom a mangled relic of very old hi-tech, it helps to have the manufacturer’s instructions. For more than a century since its discovery in an ancient shipwreck ...

In 1900, a team of sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera surfaced with more than they bargained for. Among the ...

The Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who lived around 120 BCE, usually gets credit for discovering the equinoxes and their relationship to the zodiac constellations. But in a controversial new study, ...

A 2,600-year-old two-handled wine cup currently on display at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece has long been thought to depict a random assortment of animals. But the piece of ancient pottery ...

We are closer than ever to deciphering what has been called the world’s first computer. The device, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, has been puzzling scientists for more than a century ever since ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 2,600-year-old two-handled wine cup currently on display at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in ...