Minoans may have created the first portable eclipse calculator, predating the Antikythera mechanism by over a millennium.

Ancient Greek inscriptions appear on some of the most prominent buildings in the world, whether on a historical building or ...

But the ancient Greeks certainly had numbers. In fact, they had what was in some ways a much more elegant system than the ...

Two Democrat-run cities in the Rockies are skirting state laws dictating which flags can be flown on government property, according to The Associated Press – and are granting particular ...

A 38-year-old Greek woman was killed Saturday when a bomb she was allegedly planning to plant at a bank detonated in her hands, police said. The explosion happened in the northern Greek city of ...

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has criticized the order prohibiting religious symbols in railway exam centers. He stated that while security checks are acceptable for items like ...

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. "This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and ...

She reports on justice and human rights issues. Contact her at [email protected] More than 2,000 Confederate symbols are still standing in public spaces across the U.S., according ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek origins. From 776 BCE to 393 CE, the Olympics were held here quadrennially.

But what about the fancy Greek symbols? It turns out they may be little more than window dressing. Looking more closely at the formula above, note that the "m" is shorthand for imports and the "x ...

A powerful storm in the Aegean Sea has triggered flash flooding on the Greek holiday island of Paros. Torrential rain in the tourist towns of Parikia and Naousa caused floodwaters that surged ...