Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...
James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...
A Keio University team measured the cosmic microwave background temperature from 7 billion years ago at 5.13 K using ALMA, ...
A remarkable discovery in Crete has reinvigorated debate over the origins behind the ancient Greek myth of the labyrinth.
In celebration of its 270th anniversary, Vacheron Constantin has just launched a new watch series, featuring 13 special ...
The manufacture unveils a new series of Les Cabinotiers watches entitled ‘La Quête', which pays tribute to astronomy and the ...
Without the scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, who translated Ancient Greek, it is likely that ancient knowledge would now ...
Samhain: A Celtic celebration held on November 1, the precursor to modern-day Halloween. Pure white cats are fairly uncommon, ...
In most Ancient Greek philosophical circles, the theory of a spherical earth was accepted by around the 5th century BC, and ...
The earliest documented solar eclipse is recorded in the ancient Chinese text *Shujing*, describing a celestial event where "the Sun and Moon did not meet harmoniously in Fang." Initial scholarly ...
From the vibrant streets of Athens to the scholarly halls of Alexandria, ancient Greece was a beacon of innovation, producing ideas and inventions that continue to define modern civilization. The ...
“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth,” is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels. One such lie has been the notion that Ancient Greeks regularly practiced ...