Incredibly, scientists and mathematicians in ancient Greece made some of the most significant astronomical discoveries ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water. Roman encyclopaedist ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered an ancient sanctuary dedicated to Odysseus on Ithaca, with a tile bearing the ...