Evidence suggests ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, may have had early optical knowledge and devices like ...

Particularly, however, to the ancient Greeks, it was a vast canvas of endless possibilities—a frame dotted with hidden planets and shiny stars upon which they painted their myths and stories. The ...

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The ancient canvas highlighted a forgery case in ancient Rome. The document itself—which went unnoticed for decades, until a professor realized that it had been misclassified—is written in a ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. And those still functional marvels rely on a unique construction material: pozzolanic ...

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