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?' ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In many ways, they’d view the prospect as absurd. In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves; instead, the heart and soul of the festival was the experience ...

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

29) to the question whether these troublesome insects were known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans ... was the same as our loathsome pest.” I think Mr. Robinson is mistaken in supposing that ...