Ctesibius was a pioneering inventor of ancient Greece whose work in pneumatics and hydraulics shaped technologies still in ...

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...

Work and wages varied immensely in ancient Greece. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy but work was available in ...

Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a simple pencil-and-paper geometry exercise. To ...

The instrument, called Euclid in honor of the ancient Greek mathematician, reached space and headed out to Lagrange Point 2 (L2), located 1.5 million km (932,000 miles) from Earth.

A 32-year-old Greek national found the statue on Jan. 18 in a black bag near the trash bins. The statue, believed to be from the Hellenistic period, is currently being held by authorities for ...

That same year, ancient bronze statues were found in a garbage dump in Tuscany, Italy. In 2013, a 1,800-year-old carved stone head possibly depicting a Roman god found in an ancient trash dump in ...

A new subway system is on its way to being showcased to passengers in Thessaloniki, Greece. The project unveiled thousands of ancient finds through excavations.

Greece’s second-largest city, Thessaloniki, has finally unveiled its brand new subway system after nearly two decades of construction—which was repeatedly interrupted by discoveries of ancient ...

Euclid Tsakalotos is tipped to be Greece's new finance minister, replacing outgoing Yanis Varoufakis. Varoufakis himself has hinted Tsakalotos could take the job, saying: "I hope so," when asked if ...

An ancient site at the newly built Agias Sofias metro station ahead of its Nov. 30 official opening, in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Friday, part of the city’s long-delayed subway system ...