Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

Pythagoras, the famous Greek scientist, had a fascinating but largely unknown ancestry which connects him to Greek mythology.

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Türkiye Today reports that Turkish archaeologists led by Gorkem Kokdemir of Ankara University at the site of Magnesia in western Turkey have uncovered an extensive 2,400-year-old area paved with ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Theano of Crotone, an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician in her own right, is often referred to as the wife of ...

The Pythagorean Theorem, a cornerstone of geometry, empowers students to solve right triangle problems and unlock advanced ...

One of the things that he is often credited for that he almost certainly didn’t invent, however, is the Pythagorean cup, which is also known as the ‘cup of justice’ or the g ...

Excavations at 'Homer's School' reveal artifacts bearing his name and a bronze statue, confirming the existence of an ancient ...

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 ...

Pythagoras: a life in ancient Greece Born around 570 BCE on the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea, Pythagoras' early life is shrouded in mystery. However, historical accounts suggest he travelled ...

According to tradition, Damo was born in Croton, a prosperous city of Magna Graecia, around the year 535 BCE. She was the daughter of the renowned philosopher Pythagoras, founder of an influential ...