The assembly hall at the ancient Hellenistic city of Stratonikeia, also known as the “City of Gladiators,” is restored to its ...

When we think of modern innovations, we often picture digital devices, advanced medicine, or sleek engineering. But what if many of the ideas we call “modern” were already in use thousands of years ...

Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not.

NEW research into a mysterious 2,000-year-old relic may have finally revealed its true purpose – and it’s very different to ...

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

Jo Marchant, Nature In 1900, Greek divers rifling through an ancient shipwreck recovered dozens of bronze fragments that turned out to be parts of a 2,000-year-old mechanical calendar. Now ...

This would be 10,000 years before Hipparchus of ancient Greece documented the wobble in the Earth’s axis in 150 BC, making this newfound calendar well ahead of its time.

Mother's Day is right around the corner in the United States. Here's what we know about the holiday celebrating moms.

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic ...

It is Lent in the Christian world, but in reality, it only alters the lives of monks and Moscow restaurateurs, who rush to invent Lenten menus to profit from the public's fear of living in sin.

These include giving the date according to the Egyptian and Greek calendars, displaying the positions of the ... Either way, ...

While that number demonstrates how tough it is to qualify for Boston, there are plenty of marathons in the United States on ...