Hippocratic physicians introduced the first evidence‑based, ethical approach to diagnosing and treating. But their ...

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

Millions of people have explored ancient Greece's golden ratio, a magical number that has fascinated experts and amateurs for ...

5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...

While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering events between 1200 and 760BC. This period has traditionally been viewed as a ...

Is it any wonder ancient people thought lightning came from the gods? Even today, a close lightning strike feels like a ...

Greek archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of ancient artifacts while exploring the lost city of Tenea, which legend suggests was built some 3,000 years ago by Trojan prisoners of war. More than ...

Paintings from ancient Egypt show the harvesting of grapes and the making of wine. Mesopotamian murals illustrate elites rai ...

Excavations at the site of the 1802 Mentor shipwreck uncovered a marble fragment that may have ties to the Parthenon in ...