What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

Preserved in the margins of ancient literary works are notes that reveal how the Greeks strove to map mythical places onto ...

The Kandahar Sophytos Inscription, written in refined Greek in the 2nd century BCE, reveals the deep reach of Hellenistic culture in ancient Afghanistan and tells the personal story of a merchant who ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

Associate Professor and Chair of Classics Richard Fernando Buxton taught students in Block 5 about how warfare was conducted ...

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...

Major reforms and inventions often begin with a line of mathematics. For students, equations can look abstract on a classroom ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

With the penny being ushered out of circulation early in the 21st century, theologians, historians, archaeologists and numismatists continue to glean insights from coins of the first century, when ...

“Our goal was to build a clear mathematical bridge between abstract algebra and the experience of listening to music,” said study co-author Olga Ibragimova. “When we think of melodies as shapes we can ...

From the perfectly symmetrical stone vessels of Saqqara to the massive granite boxes of the Serapeum, some Egyptian artifacts display levels of precision that challenge conventional explanations. This ...