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Ancient Greek polybolos machine gun is one of the most fascinating warfare inventions in antiquity, shooting and reloading ...
Philo of Byzantium, a pioneering Hellenistic engineer, revolutionized mechanics and automation in ancient Alexandria.
The Phoenicians were known for their exceptional naval skills which stemmed from two notable innovations at the time. HEre's ...
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What Was the Polis?
For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish.
Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.
Due to deliberate misrepresentation of facts and false information, White people had deceived many ignorant and learned people as well in the world that they had originated every good thing that ...
Ancient Chinese astronomer Shi Shen’s star catalog, known as The Star Manual of Master Shi, is now considered the oldest star ...
This is in spite of the fact that most people have become poorer, or at least seen their real income stay static, since the financial crisis of 2008. As the saying goes, “There’s nothing surer: the ...
On their fifth album, the brothers Barnett tap into a peculiarly English unusual, channeling their unique romanticism towards ...
A team of Italian researchers has discovered markings on the walls of Pompeii that could be the first known evidence of the ...
Is Kyiv really 1,500 years old? Why is the capital called the "Mother of Rus' cities"? And where was the princes' fortress ...