The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic technological artifacts in human history. Hidden among statues, coins, glassware, ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...

From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.

The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

A scientist has made a bold claim about the location of the Garden of Eden. He used Medieval world maps to find the Biblical ...

Eratosthenes became the first person to calculate the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy, a feat that stands as a ...

Crowley specialises in ancient Greek wisdom and notes that the Greek revolution revolves around inquiry, criticism and self-reflective argument. “The exemplar of Greek wisdom is Socrates,” he ...

Chrysa Kouveliotou continues to serve science with dedication and modesty, holding high the flag of Greece on the world map of Astrophysics.

With the nation's growing emphasis on cultural heritage preservation, the ancient book restoration industry is experiencing unprecedented opportunities for development. "The demand comes not only ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...