Ancient Greek astronomers also used eclipse events to calculate distances between celestial objects. Many ancient cultures have long tied eclipses to other civilizational cataclysms.

Professional historians react to the first scenes of Jason and the Argonauts (1963), comparing the film's portrayal of ancient Greek customs, city-states, and royal power to real historical sources.

Scientists have finally demystified the incredible workings of a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator built by ancient Greeks. A new analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism, a clock-like machine ...

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An Australian mathematician has cracked an ancient math secret found in two ancient Babylonian ... “The way we understand trigonometry harks back to ancient Greek astronomers,” Mansfield ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.

Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy, a star-scape beaming light just 300 million years after ...