A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

The imperceptible forces that push, pull, and pass through the universe have clearly tugged at Barkotel Zemenu a time or two. Or 10. Four years ago, Zemenu entered the vortex of Yale undergraduate ...

Modern physicists like to compare themselves to the ancient Greeks — searchers for knowledge about the ultimate foundations of reality. But science historian John Heilbron argues in his latest book, ...

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...

The recent economic crisis has drastically affected research and development in Greece, but competitive research goes on, says Eleftherios Economou, a founder of the Foundation of Research and ...

Canonical works in the philosophy of physics tend to begin with the Greeks. This practice stems from the philosopher’s need to flag the intellectual tradition from which current physics and its ...

O'Leary writes a fascinating history of a critically important phase in mesopotamian history. After all, it was the Arabs who brought with them into Spain the Arabic versions of the Greek works, from ...

Greek archaeologists have found the ancient military harbor of the island of Salamis — the very physical space from which the largest and most decisive naval battle ever fought in antiquity was ...

Greece had two golden ages. The first took place after the Greeks defeated the Persians in early fifth century BCE. During the fifty years between the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, 479 – 431 ...

If research and technology are to become the driving force for turning Greece into a productive society, evidence-based governance, strategic restructuring of infrastructure and a substantial inflow ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 2,600-year-old two-handled wine cup currently on display at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in ...