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

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 ...

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

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The thought behind Pythagoras’ transmigration view is that humans and animals are alike. If a human soul can enter an animal body, humans and animals must be very similar kinds of creature.