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The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics and especially geometry. By Evaggelos Vallianatos The second century BC was a time of the golden...

Did the ancient Greeks look up at the night sky and ask "are we alone?" As it turns out, ancient Greek philosophers also asked...

Advances in mathematics that can be attributed to ancient Greeks are many and have profoundly shaped the scientific world as we know it today. Let's...

The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched but certain researchers think otherwise. The idea is based entirely on a new...

  Christos Lentzos, the mastermind behind frappe, the legendary iced Greek beverage, has died at the age of ninety-three. In the heart of Athens, Greece in...

The birth of Jesus Christ has been used for centuries to mark our years. Events are dated a certain number of years before or...

In the coming week, a rare space event is expected. An asteroid named 319 Leona is set to block our view of the red...

The face of Egypt's Pharaoh Ramesses II statue at Abu Simbel was met with a beam of sunlight this morning in a solar alignment...

Theories depicting the shape of the earth swirled in embryonic form in the minds of Ancient Greek thinkers. By Matthew Norman Many pre-Socratic Greek philosophers were...

Western astrology, rooted in Babylonian tradition, underwent a multifaceted evolution, primarily shaped by ancient Greek cultural influences. Early Greek texts, such as Hesiod's poems dating...