Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Edited film addresses the achievements of the ancient Greeks in philosophhy, athletics, politics, and the arts. Shown are the Parthenon, the Academia, the Plain of Marathon, Delphi, and the Athenian ...

The inventions of the hemispherium and the hemicyclium are attributed to Berosus (356-323 BCE), a Chaldean priest and astronomer who brought these types of sundials to Greece. Both dials use the shape ...

Looking through the rubble of ancient civilizations, archaeologists have uncovered inventions so sophisticated they challenge everything we think we know about technological progress. While we often ...

Historians generally accept that the ancient Olympics ended in the fourth or fifth century AD, but the date of the last Olympics is unclear.