The first hydraulic telegraph was invented in the fourth century B.C.E. by a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, named Aeneas Tacticus.

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 ...

Medicine is an important part of our lives, especially in times of pandemic. When human society shares an invasive, and sometimes lethal, virus, we turn to medical researchers and practitioners to ...

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.

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, ...