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 ...

The world’s earliest computer was not built in the 19th century by Charles Babbage but over two millennia ago during the Western Han dynasty, according to the China Association for Science and ...

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 ...