Greece’s integrative wellness hotspot hosts a new festival that’s reimagining what it means to live longer—and better.

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Ancient Greece, the civilisation responsible for all that we cherish about our cultural, political and intellectual life. The origin of democracy, theatre and theoretical mathematics, where poets and ...

Some of the key historians who wrote about the lives of ancient Greek women were Plutarch ... she would receive education in music, reading, writing, mathematics and dancing. After an arranged ...

From Mozart and Dostoyevsky to Jackson Pollock — two books reveal the fundamental and sometimes surprising intertwining of ...

Theano of Crotone, an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician in her own right, is often referred to as the wife of ...

Shutterstock Anyone who has taken high-school math classes has heard of the Pythagorean theorem (even if you don’t remember exactly what it was). Most people also remember that it was named after ...

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities, focusing on higher ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos was said to have guarded the island of Crete, off the coast of Greece.

Sports in Ancient China and Greece The history of the Olympic Movement may be divided into the ancient and modern periods. The ancient period covered at least 12 centuries from 776 BC when the ...

In celebration of pi (Greek letter π), the mathematical constant and infinite number whose first three digits are 3.14, UBNow features a special Q&A with Daniel Sage, professor and chair of the ...