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7 Ancient Machines That Shouldn’t Exist

From the Antikythera Mechanism to Tesla’s so-called earthquake machine, history is full of inventions that vanished too soon.
Greek Reporter

Ancient Greek Inventions We Weren’t Meant to Find

Ancient Greek inventions included remarkable automata and the Antikythera Mechanism, but many of their engineers' innovations ...
The Southern Illinoisan

SIU students to showcase working replica of ancient bucket-chain machine

CARBONDALE — Ancient Romans and Greeks used many machines to build their societies. Students and faculty will demonstrate a working replica of one of these machines — a chain-type contraption that ...
Yale Environment 360

Blend of machine learning, botany unlocks secrets of ancient Greece

A rising junior at Yale College, Micah Gold can pilot drones and write algorithms. He’ll utilize both skills this summer in central Greece as part of a unique archaeological project. Gold is part of a ...
Kotaku

VR Time Machine Travelling in History: Visit ancient Egypt, Babylon and Greece in B.C. 400

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from VR Time Machine Travelling in History: Visit ancient Egypt, Babylon and Greece in B.C. 400 The purpose of our game is to let more people know about the ...
PC Magazine

College Student Uses Machine Learning to Decipher Word in Ancient Roman Scroll

Researchers have been itching to see what's written on ancient Roman scrolls recovered from the lost cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. But they were too delicate to unroll, until now. The Vesuvius ...