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The Ancient Greek Scholar Who Shaped the Way We Organize Knowledge
Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...
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2,000 Years Before Modern Technology, the Greeks Had Built the World’s First Computer (So Advanced That It Still Baffles Scientists)
Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic technological artifacts in human history. Hidden among statues, coins, glassware, ...
Archaeologists Dug Under an Ancient Greek City—and Found a 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Settlement
On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...
How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide.
A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...
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Thucydides: The Ancient Greek Father of Scientific History
No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...
The Famous Antikythera Mechanism Was a Mechanical Disaster, New Research Suggests
Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not.
Changing the Eurocentric narrative about the history of science – why multiculturalism matters
The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.
Garden of Eden 'FOUND' as scientist claims Biblical paradise is linked to the Pyramids of Giza
A scientist has made a bold claim about the location of the Garden of Eden. He used Medieval world maps to find the Biblical ...
Roman gladiator's lost tomb is FOUND in Italy after 2,000 years
Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...
Greek City Times10d
Eratosthenes, the Ancient Greek mathematician who calculated the Earth’s circumference
Eratosthenes became the first person to calculate the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy, a feat that stands as a ...
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What was the first alphabet in the world?
Glenn Schwartz/Johns Hopkins University With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the ...
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More than a dozen migrants die as boats sink off Greece and Turkey
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Lifejackets lie at Petra port, after the capsizing ...