Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Learn about the first whole genome from Ancient Egypt, which has shed light on the life and ancestry of a potter who lived ...

Ancient 'computer' yielding some secrets. Updated Nov 24, 2012 6:52 p.m. Part of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, found off southern Greece in 1900 and now in an Athens museum.

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

We thought the world’s oldest known computer — the Antikythera Mechanism — was 2000 years old. Now we know it was antique even before it sank beneath the waves in a wrecked Roman ship. The ...

"Decoding an Ancient Computer" in Scientific American, December 2009, p. 76. Marchant, Jo, 2009. Decoding the Heavens, Da Capo Press. "Ancient Computer" airs on PBS Wednesday, November 21 at 9PM/8C.

Ancient Computer. A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. Runtime: 52:51 Topic: Ancient Worlds Ancient Worlds NOVA.

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...