The hydraulic telegraph, a telecommunications device invented by ancient Greeks, allowed the sending of long distance ...

In the summer of 1900, a group of sponge divers off the coast of Antikythera, a Greek island, stumbled upon a shipwreck that would go on to reveal one of the most extraordinary technological ...

The world’s oldest analog computer may be no more than a 2,000-year-old lemon, according to the findings of an as-yet un-peer-reviewed study. Discovered at the site of an ancient shipwreck, the ...

Ancient “technologies” that still have scientists baffled Ancient civilizations demonstrated remarkable ingenuity in solving ...

More than a century on from being spotted and salvaged by sponge divers in the Mediterranean Sea, the Antikythera mechanism continues to excite academic research and the public imagination. Found in a ...

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