The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

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A criminal trial has opened in Greece over a train collision that killed 57 people, many of them students, in a disaster that ...

A 2,100-year-old sling bullet with a sarcastic inscribed message “learn” attached was found in ...

A new study has challenged the long-held belief that democratic governance was exclusively born in the classical Mediterranean world of Greece and Rome. By analyzing archaeological and historical ...

The Roman Empire is often remembered for its armies and its vast territory. But one of its greatest achievements was its technology. From engineering to medicine, Roman innovations reached levels that ...

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Two archaeologists explore the enduring myth that extraterrestrials contributed to the various ancient cultures around the ...