The Minoan moulds of Palaikastro may have been used to create the First Portable Eclipse Calculator. Credit: Olaf Tausch / CC BY 3.0 Though its original name has vanished from the historical record, ...

Kythera, the place where the Aegean meets the Ionian Sea, lies next to Antikythera and its amazing Antikythera Mechanism, discovered off its shores. It was inhabited in ancient times and has the ...

Who needs transistors when you’ve got gears?