Ancient Greek inventions included remarkable automata and the Antikythera Mechanism, but many of their engineers' innovations ...
T he ancient Greeks left a lasting mark on the modern world with their incredible discoveries and inventions. They were ...
Throughout history, inventors have been pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, often creating devices and systems that ...
The Golden Ratio, a hallmark of Swiss design and the foundation of everything from Helvetica to Le Corbusier’s meticulous architecture, may have been imported from Africa. Design remains a largely ...
Aristophanes of Byzantium is credited with inventing the signs for Greek accents, breathings and vowel lengths, according to a single source: a short text found in two 16th-century Paris manuscripts.
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What Was the Polis?

For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish. There’s a reason many of us know the word for “marketplace”(agora) in ancient Greek, ...
Staff at the international science and education exhibition area of the 2025 Beijing International Week for Science Literacy ...