The Archimedes Palimpsest, a 10th century collection of the Greek mathematician’s treatises, changed hands many time—some ...

People in North America adopted the bow and arrow as replacement weapons for the dart and atlatl about 1,400 years ago, ...

Discover the most popular traditional Greek drinks including frappé coffee, mastiha, Metaxa, kitron, visinada and Greek craft ...

The Ancient Greeks boasted a sophisticated civilization, philosophers, and a system of democracy—but were forks part of their culture?

Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science ...

Scientists are reconstructing the oldest known map of the night sky - long thought lost to time - by using X-rays to reveal its secrets.

Five units that must occupy the central position of as many lines, called the sacred line. It sounds like military tactics, ...

Let's explore how the Pythagorean theorem was known and applied in India centuries before Pythagoras, highlighting a poetic geometry problem from Bhāskara II’s Līlāvatī. It traces the theorem’s ...

There was a time when frozen yogurt ruled Miami. You couldn’t drive five minutes on U.S. 1 without passing a neon-lit “Froyo” sign and a bunch of teenagers laughing inside. In Coconut Grove, Red Kiwi ...

WAUWATOSA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Taste of Greece is this Saturday, Feb. 14 and Sunday, Feb. 15. Follow the smells and the sounds of 'OPA' right to the cultural center by Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church ...

Whitewashed villages clinging to cliffs. Blue-domed churches glowing in the afternoon sun. A sea so clear it barely seems real. A Greek islands cruise sits firmly in bucket-list territory. It’s one of ...

Actor Robert Wagner is 96. Singer Jimmy Merchant of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers is 84. Bassist Bob Spalding of The Ventures is 79. Keyboardist Cory Lerios of Pablo Cruise is 75. Actor Kathleen ...