Sacred vestments, such as ornaments, stoles, and dalmatics, play a fundamental role in liturgical celebrations. They are not mere garments, but symbols that communicate the meaning of the liturgy and ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript that wouldn’t have fit inside a shipping container, here’s our top ten list of the most important ancient documents that no longer exist ...

Jo Marchant, Nature In 1900, Greek divers rifling through an ancient shipwreck recovered ... devices are known from writings describing the machines, which may or may not have been built.

Piles of magazines teetering on the kitchen island. An old battered sofa that’s bad for your back. The daily squeeze down a ...