Throughout history, there have been intriguing references in ancient texts to devices and mechanisms that bear a striking resemblance to modern computers. These descriptions, while often shrouded in ...

The Giza Plateau contains some of the most controversial ancient structures on Earth, including the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx ...

In 1901, a group of sponge divers searching the waters off the Greek island of Antikythera stumbled upon the wreck of an old ...

Before gunpowder, Ancient Greek engineers were already constructing devastating war machines, such as the Claw of Archimedes.

Almost 2,000 years ago, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Just over a century before that, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a Roman general who later ...

New research suggests that a “primitive lifting machine” was in use around 150 years prior to the appearance of cranes 2,500 years ago. This early lifting machine was capable of lifting ashlar blocks ...

A groundbreaking announcement for the recovery of lost ancient literature was recently made. Using a non-invasive method that harnesses machine learning, an international trio of scholars retrieved 15 ...