Ancient

For several months, archaeologists carried fragments of the shipwreck to the surface. Jose Antonio Moya Archaeologists have raised a 2,600-year-old shipwreck from the waters near southeastern Spain. Divers initially located the vessel in 1994, according to CBS News’ Emily Mae … Read more

Explore To do philosophy, you don’t need expensive labs or equipment. You don’t need a huge team. You can do it all by yourself. The downside is that philosophers are often lonely. Reading in solitude while wrestling with your own … Read more

“In Uruk he built walls, a great rampart, and the temple of blessed Eanna for the god of the firmament Anu, and for Ishtar the goddess of love. Look at it still today: the outer wall where the cornice runs, … Read more

Last year, @swapgs and I found a fun bug in the popular enterprise VPN solution Zscaler. The VPN client was using the pacparser library to decide which HTTP requests should be proxied. The decision was made based on a pre-configured … Read more

Read later Close Beta During Beta testing articles may only be saved for seven days. Create a list of articles to read later. You will be able to access your list from any article in Discover. You don’t have any … Read more

More than most technical procedures in the ancient world, drilling of hard stone such as quartz and granite has evoked awe and puzzlement. Neither wall paintings, nor textual information, nor excavated material has provided complete answers as to how drilling … Read more

Raymond Chen We take stacks and heaps for granted nowadays, but back in the very old days of computing, computers operated without a stack or a heap. Tell a recent college graduate this, and you may as well tell them … Read more

A drawing of the aurora observed from Nagoya, Japan, on September 17, 1770. The written description also notes its intensity: “as bright as a night with a full moon.” MS Special 7–59, National Diet Library, ff. 6b–7a (at Nagoya). Courtesy … Read more