One investigator dubbed it “an ancient Greek computer ... wrote of a bronze device made by Archimedes in the third century B.C. And James Evans, a historian of astronomy at the University ...

Scientists are fascinated by a 2000-year-old device, called the ... combining cycles from Babylonian astronomy, mathematics from Plato's Academy, and ancient Greek astronomical theories.” ...

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and the Pythagoreans.

These 82 bronze fragments of the original mechanism were found in a Roman shipwreck by sponge divers in 1900. Copyright of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project ...