Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in Taranto, Italy, was another in a long line of polymaths from Ancient Greece.

Astrology, the belief that the positions and movements of celestial bodies can influence human lives and events on Earth, has ...

The medieval Islamic mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al Haytham (965 – c. 1040) lived in Cairo, Egypt, during the ...

Seeing the longest eclipse in our lifetime is just the start of an unforgettable trip to visit remnants of an ancient ...

Perfumes had captivated the ancient Greeks and through many sources, we can still venture through the world of perfumes in ancient Greece.

A theater that once overlooked ancient Lefkada in Greece is seeing the light of day more than a century after its initial ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old Greek astronomical calculator, was found in a Roman-era shipwreck near ...

Kanpur: Night-sky observation sessions, expert-led talks on fundamentals and hands-on astronomy activities would soon be introduced in govt schools in Uttar Pradesh to nurture budding ‘Sunita ...

Due to vibrations from their cores, stars are constantly fluctuating in brightness — and those waves, when converted to audio ...

Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar ...

MacEwan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. MacEwan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In the 11th century in Cairo, the foundations for ...

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