An ancient inscription indicates that in 262 AD there was another battle at Thermopylae between the Greeks and the Goths.

Many unexpected treasures have turned out to be true storytellers, solving mysteries and illuminating the shadows of the past ...

Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic ...

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Researchers have managed to decipher the manuscript of an ancient Egyptian mathematician ... to have been written by the Egyptian scholar of Greek descent Claudius Ptolemy during the first century ...

OeAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences) (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Directors of the Institute for Medieval Research at the OeAW praised Kessel's efforts to restore the ancient manuscript. According ...

Although many sought to find it, the calculation of pi, which is also expressed by the fraction 22/7, is commonly credited to ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...