For more than a century, one of history’s greatest technological mysteries sat hidden beneath the sea. When historians began studying a strange collection of corroded bronze gears recovered from an ...

The corroded fragments of that device, known today as the Antikythera mechanism, have become a touchstone for how much ancient science achieved and how much of it we have lost. I see in this “first ...

In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...