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

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

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic ...

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.

Physical evidence of an ancient technology is rare, says professor of Greek and Roman studies John Humphrey of the University of Calgary, who recently published a book on the subject. Most early ...

A great archaeological discovery near Lake Bashplemi in Georgia has revealed a basalt tablet with strange inscriptions that ...

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia ... the cities where Greek science had flourished came under ...

realized that it was written in ancient Greek. In light of the document’s complexity and extraordinary length, a team of scholars was assembled to conduct a detailed physical examination and ...

Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian War on the Athenian side. His world was steeped in the sensibilities of Greek tragedy, and his historical narrative carries that imprint throughout.

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

New evidence supporting the former argument comes from oddly out-of-place rocks collected not from modern areas of the ancient Roman ... and a professor of Earth Science at the University of ...

In 2019, the fragile manuscript was discovered in an unlikely place in a Cambridge library – tucked in as the binding for an old book. "The manuscript had survived the centuries after being ...