History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Ever since being salvaged by sponge divers in the Greek Mediterranean in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism has captured the imaginations of archaeologists and scientists with penchant for antiquity. A ...

When Dimitrios Kondos and his crew of sponge divers found the Antikythera shipwreck in 1900, they weren't trying to make history or upend archaeologists' understanding of high technology in the late ...