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The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

A 2,000-year-old loom found in a Chinese tomb may hold the key to the origins of computing.

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“Palestine” was never a people. It was a place-name—an external label for the land of Israel, used centuries before Rome and ...

Marc Olsen was just 18 when he started winning money at backgammon. Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would ...

The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched, but certain researchers think ...

The quality, breadth, and depth of student entries never ceases to amaze, especially in this 101st anniversary year ...

After taking viewers on a voyage through time and space, a journey into the subconscious, and a trip to 1950s America, Christopher Nolan is ready to take us all on an…Odyssey. That’s right, pack your ...

An Ancient Computer That Predicted the Cosmos Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera around ...