The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

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 ...

There is something quietly humbling about standing before an ancient artifact and realizing, with all of our satellites, ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than slabs ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece ...

A new study shows how Hunayn ibn Ishaq, an eye physician, translated ancient Greek medicine into Arabic, reshaping medical ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced ...