Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey” opens July 17 amid international anticipation and controversy ...

Ancient tree rings serve as a meticulous year-by-year archive of history. They capture significant environmental changes, ...

There's a bit of a historical mystery surrounding the star Theta Eridani. Ptolemy in the second century A.D. and al-Sufi in A ...

This small island is earning international recognition not only for its unspoiled coastline, but also for its pioneering ...

I HAVE normally necked far too much Ouzo the night before to rise with the sun during a holiday in gorgeous Greece. But my ...

Greek artisans built a bronze device around 80 B.C. that could track Olympiad cycles, predict eclipses, and model planetary positions through interlocking gears, all without electricity, transistors, ...

These 82 bronze fragments of the original mechanism were found in a Roman shipwreck by sponge divers in 1900. Copyright of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project ...

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Event Abstract: Ancient Maya cosmology and sociocultural conduct was entwined with a complex calendar system. This is evident from thousands of stone inscriptions and other extant texts, especially ...

Ancient calendars were more than just tools for tracking days; they were crucial for agriculture, religious rituals, and societal organization. They helped civilizations predict seasonal changes, ...

Our modern calendar is the Gregorian calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII, who reformed it in 1582 to correct some errors in the older Julian calendar. The Julian calendar was named for Julius Caesar ...