The pioneering work of seven Greek scientists reshaped the fields of science and technology and left a lasting mark on the ...

Greek mathematics is considered one of the great intellectual achievements of antiquity. It has been decisive to the academic and cultural development of Western civilization. The three Roman authors ...

Greece had two golden ages. The first took place after the Greeks defeated the Persians in early fifth century BCE. During the fifty years between the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, 479 – 431 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a professor & policy adviser, writing about behavioral economics. Topline: The new science and technology agreement between ...

O'Leary writes a fascinating history of a critically important phase in mesopotamian history. After all, it was the Arabs who brought with them into Spain the Arabic versions of the Greek works, from ...

He was the mathematician who ran through the streets shouting “Eureka!” — but that was only a glimpse of his genius.

A massive loan from the European Union’s investment bank gives Greek researchers their first ray of hope since the debt crisis hit six years ago: a government-backed plan to create a Greek research ...

Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. Hygieia (from whose name we get the word ‘hygiene’) was known as the ...

“We are trying to survive and go along as if nothing is happening,” says Dimitra Thomaidou, a microscopist at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute in Athens. Despite Greece's financial crisis, optimism was ...