The attempt of the Pythagoreans to reshape society in Croton, Magna Graecia, through politics led to public backlash and ...

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

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Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

With the help of a tech start-up, the Madrid museum is enlisting technology to quantify large crowds in its artworks and ...

Intellectual life in the modern West traces its origins to the ancient Greeks and Romans. However, by the launch of the First ...

Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar’s progressive policies, Caesar Augustus ...

New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...

The upcoming Throwback Classic at the Hickory Motor Speedway will raise the bar, offering the richest single night in pavement Late Model racing history, with a record-setting purse exceeding $200,000 ...

An equally easy method to identify older Kindles is with their serial number and model number. You have to use the device’s settings menu to find your serial number, or you can check the back of ...