From computers and robots to nanotechnology, batteries and more, the ancient world might still have plenty to teach us about high-tech.

Thanks to high-tech scanning, 2,000-year-old inscriptions on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer," can be read more clearly than ever before, revealing more information about the ...

Throughout history, there have been intriguing references in ancient texts to devices and mechanisms that bear a striking resemblance to modern computers. These descriptions, while often shrouded in ...

Mysterious Disk Found in Ancient Greek Shipwreck The site has fascinated archaeologists for decades. It was once excavated by Jacques Cousteau and previously yielded an ancient “computer.” ...

Antikythera anticlimax: ancient computer excitement a case of over-anticipation The 2200-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, one of the most fascinating archaeological finds, has just suffered a big ...

The Antikythera mechanism was an ancient Greek analog computer used to track and predict celestial motion. Pieces of the device at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece, are seen here.

It is the focal point of an exhibition of more than 100 inventions that highlight the vast extent of Ancient Greece's technological legacy and also features an analogue computer, an alarm clock ...

More than 100 years ago, Greek divers probing an ancient Roman shipwreck off the island of Antikythera retrieved a mysterious object containing gears and covered with inscriptions. Now considered ...

We thought the world’s oldest known computer — the Antikythera Mechanism — was 2000 years old. Now we know it was antique even before it sank beneath the waves in a wrecked Roman ship. The ...

The world watched in astonishment last week as NASA delivered its one-ton Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars with astonishing precision, hitting a target area just 12 x 4 miles wide after ...