The ancient Greeks measured time because human beings have felt the need to track the passage of their hours and days since ...

Switzerland’s iconic milk chocolate, considered one of the country’s greatest inventions alongside the wristwatch and the ...

Explore the glowing Blue Caves of Zakynthos — where the sea turns light into magic. Expats vs. immigrants: Who really has it ...

American cities now dedicate somewhere between one-third and one-half of their land area to streets, parking lots, and ...

The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...

With over 1,000 works documented and a new boutique press launched, A New History of Greek Australian Literature celebrates ...

Once hailed as a genius, Thomas Midgley Jr is now seen as history's most accidentally dangerous man, whose inventions - from ...

The integration of Greek into Islamic intellectual traditions was the subject of a panel discussion titled “Greek Knowledge in Arabic: Why, What and How” at the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair ...

Dr. Said Faiq, Professor of International Studies and Translation at AUS, stated that “translation is inherently linked to culture; it is not just about converting words but adapting them to a ...

The AD/CE system we use to date the year was introduced, more or less by accident, during the Middle Ages. Before its invention, the classical world used a wide range of dating systems. Governments ...

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 ...