A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...

Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise.From computers that tracked celestial events to ...

Who needs Archimedes? Early craftsmen succeeded without math, science. Oct. 17, 2007 — -- Mark Schiefsky has spent years studying ancient Greek manuscripts, trying to figure out how some of the ...

The Antikythera Mechanism was a hand-cranked system of interlocking bronze gears designed to model the heavens. Turning the crank revealed the positions of the Sun, Moon, and the five planets visible ...

In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...

Doctors in ancient Greece pioneered anesthesia with natural remedies like mandrake, opium and henbane to ease pain during surgeries.

The world’s first robot operated in Ancient Greece—the automatic maid was the name of a technological miracle during the ...

Arms technology is one of the driving forces behind warfare. While there was a period where most of humanity was ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 5, University of Massachusetts classics lecturer Joseph Wilson took the students in his course, Technology in the Ancient World, to the glassblowing laboratory of Sally Prasch. The ...