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The Cosmos of Ancient Greece’s Antikythera Mechanism
The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.
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‘Little Beasts’ Is a First-of-Its-Kind Museum Collaboration Reveling in Art and the Natural World
At the National Gallery of Art, 'Little Beasts' pairs nearly 75 artworks with around 60 objects from the National Museum of ...
Gulf of understanding: The way we see the Earth has never been set in stone
Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.
Reno News & Review5d
Tune from trees: ‘The Sacrifice of Prometheus,’ was inspired by Great Basin National Park—and partially composed by bristlecone pines
Composer Marko Bajzer wrote “The Sacrifice of Prometheus,” a classical-music epic, when he was a Great Basin National Park artist-in-residence. The piece, a musical exploration of the park’s ...
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy—They Were Also Perfumed
Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
But, in reality, ancient Greeks and Romans embraced bold colors, which archaeologists call “polychromy.” Brightly hued paints ...
Greek Reporter1d
The Ancient Greek Astronomer Who Mapped the Stars
Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.
Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy
Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy, a star-scape beaming light just 300 million years after the Big ...
What was the first thing scientists discovered? A historian makes the case for Babylonian astronomy
Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built ...
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KS2 History: The Romans. 5: The legacy of Ancient Rome
It’s one of hundreds of sites that remain long after the Romans left Britain, and just part of the legacy of Ancient Rome. Now Bath was named after the Romans left. But there are plenty of towns ...