The Antikythera Mechanism wasn’t decoration — it was a precision machine built to predict eclipses, planetary movements, and celestial cycles with shocking accuracy. It used gears so advanced that ...

A monumental new study, years in the making, has just presented Itiner-e, the most comprehensive, high-resolution digital map ...

Ancient Greece witnessed numerous significant battles that played pivotal roles in shaping its history and Western civilization.

The ancient Greek society was a complex mix of ingenuity, brutality, eccentricities and practices that you may define as cultural rites that often fall outside of contemporary expectations. Of the ...

Scientists at Georgia State University have used CRISPR gene editing to restore an ancient enzyme humans lost millions of years ago potentially reversing the buildup of uric acid that causes gout.

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn’t last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered powerful new evidence that Mars’ Jezero Crater once hosted multiple rounds of flowing water, each creating conditions that could have supported life.

George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 ...