In 1996, after gaining permission from the Greek government, Hale and De Boer made their first expedition to Delphi. They ...

One of the famous ancient Greek Riace Bronzes was found to have had its teeth designed following the mathematical value of ...

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 ...

Surrounded by metal pipes and tangles of cables, two researchers point to bright orange squiggles on a computer screen. The squiggles are a poem written in ancient Greek about heavenly phenomena, seen ...

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 ...

Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe around them. The meticulous star catalog belonging to one of the best of these ...

Researchers found a tiny bottle from ancient Rome that contained fecal residue and traces of aromatics, offering evidence ...