“Eratosthenes Teaching in Alexandria,” by Bernardo Strozzi. Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal. Credit: Musee des Beaux Arts/ Public Domain Carl...

Carl Sagan, the American astronomer, author, and science communicator was renowned for making difficult scientific concepts understandable to the...

Ancient Greek mathematician, Eratosthenes, measured the circumference of the Earth in antiquity. Credit: Public Domain Theories depicting the shape of...

The Islamic Golden Age was a period during which science, literature, geometry, astronomy, and other fields of knowledge flourished from the eighth to...

Thucydides, the Ancient Greek historian and general defined the identities of Greeks and “barbarians” specifically in relation to the...

Theories depicting the shape of the earth swirled in embryonic form in the minds of Ancient Greek thinkers. By Matthew Norman Many pre-Socratic Greek...

For the Ancient Greeks, virtue was regarded as the highest quality a person could possess, and living virtuously was considered the ultimate goal of...

The village of Santa experienced one of the most harrowing episodes in the persecution of the Pontic Greeks during the final and most brutal phase of...

Homer was one of the most important figures in ancient Greece. His contribution to ancient Greek culture was immense, due to his two most famous poems...

Homer was one of the most important figures in ancient Greece. His contribution to ancient Greek culture was immense, due to his two most famous poems...