Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...

In the 4th century BC, the Greek engineer Aeneas of Stymphalus devised a groundbreaking communication system known as the ...

In this video, I demonstrate the process of making a knife using ancient Greek technology, focusing on techniques like case ...

Founded in 300 B.C., Antioch was one of the most important political and cultural centers of the Hellenistic East and one of the great metropolises of the Roman Empire. In the 1930s, Princeton ...

People write down lots of things—from epic poems and sacred texts to tax decrees and shopping lists. But these things are of little use to anyone if they can’t be read. In the past few decades, ...