Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...
The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.
Archaeologists have uncovered a tunnel beneath Taposiris Magna, potentially leading to the lost tomb of Cleopatra.
The conjecture that the Irish, like the other inhabitants of the British Isles are of Hebrew extraction has for many ...
Lead archaeologist Kathleen Martinez believes the tunnel could unlock the mystery of Cleopatra's final resting place.
And we don’t have clues such as names of recognized Indus rulers that could help crack the script – the way the names of Cleopatra and Ptolemy helped decipher ... described as the more “traditional” ...
But 'flat Earth theory' – still occasionally believed today – was old ... Egypt was quickly scooped up by one of his Macedonian generals, Ptolemy, who established a dynasty that would rule until the ...
The unification of Pest, Buda, and Óbuda in 1873 gave rise to Budapest. But where did these cities get their names in the first place?