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.

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

Greece had two golden ages. The first took place after the Greeks defeated the Persians in early fifth century BCE. During the fifty years between the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, 479 – 431 ...

The Greek world. The managerial societies -- Scientists in Greece -- Greek science and politics -- The Hellenistic world. Science and subsidy -- War the quest for certainty -- The Roman world. Science ...