Software engineer Andy Carol has constructed a Lego device that performs the same calculations as the Antikythera Mechanism, dubbed the world’s oldest computer. The Guardian has You Tube video of the Lego device in action, in addition to information on the original Greek instrument. A 17-year-old has been charged with spray painting graffiti with a […]

The tip of an arrow has been found lodged in the spine of a man who had been buried 8,500 years ago in northwestern Turkey. Paleoanthropologist Songül Alpaslan Roodenberg says that the wound would have quickly caused the man’s death. Evidence of ritualized child sacrifice has been uncovered at Cerro Cerrillos in northern Peru, according […]