For more than a century, one of history’s greatest technological mysteries sat hidden beneath the sea. When historians began studying a strange collection of corroded bronze gears recovered from an ...

I was first introduced to the idea of ancient machines as a teen while reading the Percy Jackson and the Heroes of Olympus books. I wondered what the Archimedes Sphere might look like, if I could see ...

In May 1902, at a museum in Athens. A gear shape was found inside a lump of bronze that had been salvaged from an ancient ...

Researchers may have solved a long-running mystery surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls by proposing that the Qumran sect really did use its distinctive 364-day calendar. Its perfectly ordered 52-week ...

Scientists discovered that tiny amounts of lead in ancient ink can make writing inside burned papyrus scrolls stand out dramatically in X-ray scans. The technique could help unlock lost Greek and ...