The article argues that term limits are one of America's best inventions, serving as a check on political power. Term limits ...

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Heron of Alexandria is said to have invented the first vending machine in the 1st century AD. So, how did this contraption work, and what did it dispense?

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The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.

A third-century B.C.E. plaque unearthed at Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan depicts the mother goddess Cybele in a chariot driven by Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet via ...

Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe around them. The meticulous star catalog belonging to one of the best of these ...

From roads to buildings to water systems, some ancient technologies were just too good to abandon. This video showcases the most impressive ancient engineering feats that we’ve continued to use or ...

The New Year is upon us. That familiar sense of returning to the same place: same resolutions, same hopes, maybe the same weight, job dissatisfaction, or relationship patterns you swore you'd address.

Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia Parties in ancient Greece were wild, with evidence of copious alcohol and sex. That’s the popular idea that endures today.

It is quite remarkable that any nonprofit professional organization reaches the “one hundred years” mark. In the instance of The Philadelphia Classical Society, encouraging the study of Latin and ...

Now the debut trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is out in the wild, age-old debates about “historical accuracy” have reemerged. The Odyssey is officially described as a “mythic action epic,” ...