The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought The first recorded venereal ...

Paintings from ancient Egypt show the harvesting of grapes and the making of wine. Mesopotamian murals illustrate elites rai ...

History of science, rediscovered -- Mathematics, the language of science -- Astronomy, sky watchers and more -- Cosmology, that old-time religion -- Physics, particle, voids, and fields -- Geology, ...