When modern engineers prise open a block of Egyptian stone, what spills out is not a sci‑fi gadget but something stranger: proof that people working 4,000 years ago were solving problems at a scale ...

The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ancient artisans could really have built it. Yet as new dives, new simulations, ...