The ancient Greeks looked to use the four main elements to interpret reality and the world. Empedocles was the proponent of ...

The myriapoda group of arthropods includes the many-legged centipedes and millipedes that most people are familiar with.

Horses have always held particular significance in Ancient Greece and played an even larger role in its mythological history.

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...

More than 100 stone game boards have been uncovered in the ruins of Ptolemais, Libya. Led by Zofia Kowarska, this discovery ...

A 13-year-old stumbled upon a coin from ancient Troy — an extremely rare find in Germany. Experts say it may offer new clues about little-known links between ancient Greece and northern Europe. While ...

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Archaeology Did modern humans wipe out the Neanderthals? New evidence may finally provide answers. Romans Babies weren't supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water. Roman encyclopaedist ...

Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia. Since at least the fourth century BC, the ancient Greeks and Romans recognized that the climate changes over time ...