The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities, focusing on higher-level ...

Over 2,000 years ago, Eucleides, ruler or "archon" or ancient Athens, Greece, helped usher in a standardized Greek alphabet. That alphabet eventually led to the Latin letters we now use. But we're all ...

At first glance, it looks like someone enjoyed taking the spaces out of a sentence; in reality, it's a single word by ...

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...