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 ...

Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...

Underwater archaeologists have discovered remnants of a sunken military warship from the second century BCE in the Egyptian ...

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 also served military purposes in a ancient Greece, ... archery, charioteering, writing and mathematics, which were supplementary to each other. In archery, for instance, ...

One of the main concerns of ancient Greek mathematics was geometric constructions via straightedge and compass. In addition to the many constructions that they were able to carry out, such as finding ...