Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

Greece's Delphi oracle is the inspiration behind an immersive art installation by data artist Charles Sandison that's aimed at encouraging a deeper understanding of history and a greater appreciation ...

Long before the rise of Oxford and Harvard, India was home to some of the world’s earliest and most celebrated centers of ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ...

Instead of this, the White House announced a complex formula crafted by the US Trade Representative, featuring Greek variables like elasticity (ε) and non-tariff barrier adjustments (ψ), suggesting a ...

The theater was eventually abandoned, but remains an emblematic example of ancient Greek architecture and cultural life in the Ionian region. The excavation team includes archaeologists Vivian ...

How would you spend your holiday in Greece - unravelling the mysteries of ancient civilisations or making the most of the ...

If architecture at the ... most memorable form of order, and mathematics as the supreme sanction in the world of external forms. In his own mind his work was essentially that of adaptation, the ...

Now, a farmer is reviving this ancient "superfood". It's a hot and muggy summer day in Sicily's Madonie mountains, a rugged range of ridges about 65km east of Palermo. In a field of ash trees ...