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 ...

The Acropolis of Athens, Greece invites a step back in time to explore ancient wonders.

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This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ...

Ancient Greek coins acted as a version of social media, broadcasting political power and national identity to every level of ...

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

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s ...

While people in Ancient Athens had a remarkable work ethic, they placed equal value on leisure, seeing it as time for ...

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece.