Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ruined building in Kafr El Sheikh was where ancient Egyptians once stood, gazing at the stars above. More than 2,500 years ago, ...

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but researchers have finally unlocked an understanding of an ancient mechanical work that has been arrested for about 2,000 years. Discovered more than a ...

The 3.5-foot timepiece, which includes an automaton, is on loan to the Paris museum until November. By Nazanin Lankarani Reporting from Paris Ancient water clocks, the astronomical devices of the ...

An international team has unravelled the secrets of a 2,000-year-old computer which could transform the way we think about the ancient world. Professor Mike Edmunds and Dr Tony Freeth, of Cardiff ...

Humanity’s relationship with telling time began before the first written word, making it a challenge today to investigate the origin of many timekeeping units. However, some time measurement units ...

A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that it was not built to observe the heavens. An ancient and enigmatic stone ...

The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...