There is an ancient Greek scientist who discovered the existence of polar day and polar night before people even knew the ...

ATHENS, Greece — When you’re trying to fathom a mangled relic of very old hi-tech, it helps to have the manufacturer’s instructions. For more than a century since its discovery in an ancient ...

We have Ancient Greeks including Xenophanes, Democritus and Apollonius to thank for some of the ideas that underpin our study of astronomy ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while ...

Scientists have deciphered Inscriptions on a mysterious 2,100 ancient Greek astronomy tool that bolster the theory that it is the world's oldest mechanical computer and reveal what it was likely ...

Ancient Greece and Astronomy, are moths the key to sonic wallpaper? and the discovery of Abu Simbel ...

In the case of one poem, written over 2,500 years ago by the Greek poet Sappho, scientists think they can pinpoint the time to early spring somewhere in ancient Greece.

A 2,600-year-old two-handled wine cup currently on display at the Lamia Archaeological Museum in Greece has long been thought to depict a random assortment of animals. But the piece of ancient ...

Studies show that the ancient Greek temples could have astronomical intentions – but on what scale?

THE traditional view that the knowledge of astronomy of the Greece of classical times had been derived from Egypt, a view to which the writings of the Greeks themselves lent support, has lost ...