More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

ATHENS, Greece — When you’re trying to fathom a mangled relic of very old hi-tech, it helps to have the manufacturer’s instructions. For more than a century since its discovery in an ancient shipwreck ...

The Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who lived around 120 BCE, usually gets credit for discovering the equinoxes and their relationship to the zodiac constellations. But in a controversial new study, ...

The star catalog was made by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus around 162 and 127 BCE, 1,400 years before the telescope. By Laura Baisas Published Oct 20, 2022 1:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science ...

We are closer than ever to deciphering what has been called the world’s first computer. The device, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, has been puzzling scientists for more than a century ever since ...

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Before modern science had a true understanding of what a solar eclipse is and how they work, ancient cultures had to form their own beliefs over what happened during this brief, but awesome, event.

THE traditional view that the knowledge of astronomy of the Greece of classical times had been derived from Egypt, a view to which the writings of the Greeks themselves lent support, has lost favour ...