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More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...
The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...
Ctesibius was a pioneering inventor of ancient Greece whose work in pneumatics and hydraulics shaped technologies still in ...
Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.
Archeologists uncovered a heroon—a funerary monument to an Ancient Greek hero—near the modern Greek city of Aigio in the Peloponnese. Located in the ancient city of Rypes (initially settled by ...
4. Thales Theorem Time to give the Greeks their due. Among myriad geometrical innovations — looking at you, Euclid — they discovered this eminently cool fact: If you make a triangle using the diameter ...
The Mediterranean port of Alexandria, on the edge of Egypt’s Nile Delta, was the most famous city founded by Alexander the Great, king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
Euclid's Inferno is a fast-paced 2D shooter where math is your enemy. Play as the father of geometry, explore a hellish version of the works of ancient mathematicians, and defeat polygonal beasts ...
Somehow Euclid knew a regular 3,072-gon was constructible in principle (a triangle doubled 10 times), but he had no idea how to construct a regular seven-gon (heptagon) or 11-gon (hendecagon).
OUR island is the last home of ignorant Euclidolatry; argal, a German scholar has been allowed to edit, and a German firm to publish, the best and only critical text of Euclid's works. Our ancient ...