The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...

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Once hailed as a genius, Thomas Midgley Jr is now seen as history's most accidentally dangerous man, whose inventions - from ...

THE ALPHABET is easy to take for granted. Children memorise it before they know why it matters. Then it’s off to reading, and learning the sounds of the letters and how they combine. After that, many ...

The AD/CE system we use to date the year was introduced, more or less by accident, during the Middle Ages. Before its invention, the classical world used a wide range of dating systems. Governments ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The first telegraph wasn’t really the first. In the fourth century B.C.E., Tacitus, a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, invented the hydraulic telegraph. It ...

The Romans were great admirers of the Greeks and their civilization. The emperor Nero, for instance, was a Philhellene who travelled extensively around Greece and even gave a huge tax-exemption to the ...

Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, scientist, mechanical engineer, and inventor who is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world. The father of simple machines, he ...

Greece / submitted by Don Hart with Ricardo Macagnan of Virginia Beach Last fall was our second visit to Athens, and it seems that something new is always discovered. As a Navy meteorologist, I couldn ...