Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

For centuries, the location of Alexander the Great’s tomb has remained one of the most baffling and captivating mysteries in ...

The city of Taposiris Magna was established by Ptolemy II, a descendant of one of Alexander the Great’s generals and an ancestor of Cleopatra, between 280 and 270 BC. This adds more weight to ...

Curiosity came from many quarters. One letter, written in 1536, begged for more information. It praised Copernicus’s “new theory of the Universe according to which the Earth moves and the Sun ...

For a limited-edition series of its Essential Cabin Threshold cases, RIMOWA has partnered with British textile artist Ptolemy Mann. RIMOWA has partnered with British artist Ptolemy Mann for a ...

The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience the world around us.

Front and back views of Mann’s luggage. Image: RIMOWA. Over the past 25 years, Mann has honed a process-intensive approach to abstract expressionism exploring Bauhaus architecture and color theory.

Another theory suggests that the Stone Tower might be the same as the Hormeterium or “trading station,” also mentioned in Ptolemy’s Geography. This site, identified by some scholars as the current ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics experiments that changed the world.

Ptolemy’s manuscript on an instrument called meteoroscope The effort to decipher this ancient Ptolemy manuscript was the culmination of over 200 years of work by various researchers. This was because ...

This would have put Wari-Bateshwar, at that time, directly in the region Ptolemy described. After an earthquake in 1783, the Brahmaputra changed its course, no longer passing by Wari-Bateshwar.