Much like many figures in Greek mythology, Atalanta has two different origin stories. In the first, the mortal heroine is the ...

Ctesibius was a pioneering inventor of ancient Greece whose work in pneumatics and hydraulics shaped technologies still in ...

Constantine Panegires, a researcher in historical philosophy at the University of Melbourne in Australia, explains, 'What did people in ancient Greece and ancient Rome think about mental health?' ...

From peaches and lentils to your favourite herb, ancient Mediterranean doctors had strong opinions about what you should (and ...

Ancient Greek thinkers made big discoveries ... They asked, “What is a good life?” and “How do we think?” Aristotle studied plants, animals and rocks. He carried out experiments to ...

Already in the late fifth century B.C., ancient Greek doctors recognized that our ... an anonymous doctor wrote that our habits about our thinking (as well as our lifestyle, clothing and housing ...

Ask most people about the origins of the marathon—a race covering 26.2 miles of terrain—and you will likely hear about how Pheidippides, an ancient Greek courier, ran 26 miles from the town of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo.

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were not just experienced ... that statues were painted in bright colors. "It's exciting to think about the ancient world as not just polychrome but also multi ...