The next time you twist open a bottle of water, consider that desalination, the science behind separating salt from seawater, is roughly 2,400 years old and owed to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, who wrote the first description on the...
Traveling in Alexandria is an intellectually enriching experience. On one's travels there, it becomes apparent how the people of Alexandria enlightened the world. A plethora of intellectuals, including ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, the father of geometry, and Eratosthenes, the...
A 17th-century brass astrolabe sold for more than 2 million pounds ($2.75 million) at a Sotheby's auction in London, setting a world record for any astronomical instrument from the Islamic world.
The sale surpassed the previous record held by an...
The Antikythera Mechanism, widely believed to be the world’s first computer, was among wreckage retrieved from a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera on May 17, 1901.
A year later, it was identified as containing a gear...
Recent reports have been circulating that the famous Antikythera Mechanism may have just been a toy for children rather than an advanced ancient computer. What is the basis for this remarkable claim, and does it have any factual basis?
What...
Multiverse is an idea as old as that of the Ancient Greeks themselves—one that in its longevity has recently become the movie fantasy of modern times perhaps because people have always believed that ours was not the only universe....
