Imagine the tiniest game of checkers in the world—one played by using lasers to precisely shuffle around ions across a very small grid.

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long ...

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(Credit: Josef Wegner for the Penn Museum) Trump tariffs live updates: Canada announces counter tariffs on vehicles Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects upon a 50-year-old computer code that ...

In 1900 a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera Diving the next day they discovered a 2000 yearold Greek ...

Among these ancient games, there are true treasures like Senet, which, for example, was discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun. Representations, such as the one with the Egyptian queen Nefertari ...

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the last known inscription written in the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt, inscribed on Hadrian’s Gate in AD 394, Philae, Egypt. Credit: Following Hadrian. CC BY 2.0/flickr ...

Science news this week includes "cosmic tornadoes" and surprises from ancient Egypt. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI/Tombos Archaeological Project) Jump to: ...

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Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in ...