Articles by Jo Marchant

About Jo Marchant

Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist and former editor at New Scientist and Nature. She is the author of Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer and The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy.

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Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia

Archaeologists Are Only Just Beginning to Reveal the Secrets Hidden in These Ancient Manuscripts

This 3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb Upended What We Thought We Knew About the Roots of Western Civilization

The World's First Computer May Have Been Used To Tell Fortunes

A Journey to the Oldest Cave Paintings in the World

Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism, the First Computer

Exploring the Titanic of the Ancient World