Forgotten Inventions That Revolutionized Our Lives: 25 Incredible Discoveries That Rewrite History: How did ancient Egyptians ...

History is littered with brilliant ideas that arrived too early for their own good. Some were buried by economic constraints, ...

Fragments of the Hydraulis—the ancient Greek water organ—were unearthed in the Dion, at the foot of Mount Olympus in 1992.

While the first ever vending machine looked very different from today's soda and snack dispensers, the basic principle was ...

Women of ancient Athens used clothing pins as weapons, prompting a shift in Ancient Greek fashion and societal control.

It was a startling disclosure. The jury’s announcement of its verdict is the most notable moment in any trial, but not at the federal criminal trial of Konstantinos Diamantis, the former head of the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The first telegraph wasn’t really the first. In the fourth century B.C.E., Tacitus, a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, invented the hydraulic telegraph. It ...

Archaeologists from Inrap have uncovered Greek-era vineyards in Marseille’s 15th district, dating from the 5th to 2nd centuries BCE. Located 2km from Massalia’s ancient walls, the site reveals three ...

The Romans were great admirers of the Greeks and their civilization. The emperor Nero, for instance, was a Philhellene who travelled extensively around Greece and even gave a huge tax-exemption to the ...

Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, scientist, mechanical engineer, and inventor who is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world. The father of simple machines, he ...

Greece / submitted by Don Hart with Ricardo Macagnan of Virginia Beach Last fall was our second visit to Athens, and it seems that something new is always discovered. As a Navy meteorologist, I couldn ...