The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

In the Ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey,” Odysseus’ men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens’ ...

But what if this humble yet essential part of humanity’s everyday life, the lowly oven, finds its roots in the ancient Greek world? Thearion, a 5th-century BC Athenian, is believed to be one of the ...

It was a computer. In short ... What if I told you that this battle is partially based on history? The ancient invention, Greek fire, was a devastating invention, playing an essential role ...

For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, ...

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Some of the world’s oldest roadways are only memories now—but many have been preserved as historic monuments or improved to handle today’s traffic.

The Renaissance, as a wall label in Reimagining the Renaissance reminds us, began in Italy six centuries ago but its ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze ... or conical stands were often used as votive gifts dedicated in Greek sanctuaries from the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. The head had ...