Several millennia ago, a Greek ship sank off the coast of an island in the Aegean Sea called Antikythera. It was carrying statues, coins, and one mysterious shoebox-sized object. Watch editors Andrew ...

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results. Unearthed in 2012 from a tomb dated to ...

Archaeologists excavating a tomb in Xinjiang, in far-western China, made an unexpected find: a 2,000-year-old silk-weaving loom equipped with mechanical components that some believe reflect the basic ...