Today, olive oil is often hailed as helping to protect against disease, but beliefs in its medicinal or even sacred ...

The earliest known evidence for the Pythagorean Theorem comes from an ancient clay tablet called, “IM 67118.” This tablet uses the theorem to determine the length of a diagonal within a rectangle, and ...

How does Plato's references to the Greek alphabet help us to work out where Atlantis really was? This article examines the ...

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

Many pre-Socratic Greek philosophers were wrong about the form of our planet. Thales – founder of the Milesian School of natural philosophy, whom Aristotle regarded as the first philosopher in the ...

Latest archaeological research has revealed the ancient double-hulled boat (catamaran) unearthed recently in the northern province of Bac Ninh, dates back about 1,800-1,600 years ago, leading to a ...

The Greek magical papyri, as it is commonly known, is an extensive collection of ancient Greco-Roman Egypt magical spells, rituals, remedies, hymns, and myth. Scholars have placed its origin between ...

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During a visit to a recently excavated part of the ancient Greek city of Olympia in the 1960s, a German tourist saw something that caught her eye. She picked up the object, took it back to Germany, ...

As crazy as it sounds, it’s now well attested that the letter “A” started out its evolution as the Egyptian hieroglyph for an ox. But its truly mind-blowing transformation came when turquoise miners ...