When we read about the lives of people from the ancient past, we naturally want to know what they looked like.

It was a mechanical marvel, so advanced that it baffled archaeologists and scientists for over a century. A device that would later be hailed as the world’s first analog computer—the Antikythera ...

THE mystery deepens around the famous shipwreck that held the 2,000-year-old relic dubbed the “world’s first computer”. The Antikythera wreck sank in the first century BC off the ...

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

Recent scientific breakthroughs include a three-person IVF technique saving children from genetic diseases, Denmark's plan to ...

Nishijinori, the intricate weaving for kimonos that dates back more than a thousand years in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto ...

ATHENS, Greece -- Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later.