More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern applications.

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 first science fiction novel about man on the Moon was written in Greek by a writer named Lucian of Samosata 2,000 years ago ...

ON Wednesday, May 12, Dr. C. Singer delivered his inaugural address as lecturer in the history of medicine at University College, London. Sir Robert Had field presided over a large and distinguished ...

Chalk up another Olympian feat to a mechanical gadget discovered more than a century ago in a 2,100-year-old shipwreck. Scientists over the past decades have determined that the device was used to ...

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 ...

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 ...

History has a habit of being rewritten. But thanks to advances in science and technology, we’re gaining an ever-clearer picture of what life may have been like during some of the most crucial periods ...