The catapult was an ancient siege machine that could hurl heavy objects or shoot arrows with great force and for considerable distances. Some catapults could throw stones weighing as much as 350 ...

"Scientists aren’t exactly reinventing the wheel here." 5 ancient technologies that are inspiring modern innovations first ...

Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation.

Since the harps were of wood, all that remains of them are drawings on ancient Greek vases. From these we can tell that the kollopes, or tuning pegs, were usually located either on the base of the ...

Ancient civilizations around the world had clever inventions that were so ahead of ... that were centuries ahead of their time. Found in a Greek shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism ...