History is littered with brilliant ideas that arrived too early for their own good. Some were buried by economic constraints, ...

Fragments of the Hydraulis—the ancient Greek water organ—were unearthed in the Dion, at the foot of Mount Olympus in 1992.

The “Greekness” of the Terracotta Army went viral, but archaeologists in China were skeptical of the influence of Greek art.

In the 4th century BC, the Greek engineer Aeneas of Stymphalus devised a groundbreaking communication system known as the ...

While the first ever vending machine looked very different from today's soda and snack dispensers, the basic principle was ...

Why Q Needs U. By Danny Bate. Blink Publishing; 336 pages; £14.99. T HE ALPHABET is easy to take for granted. Children ...

Nachos are a go-to for those who want a crispy, cheesy dish, but what if the traditional method is growing old? Try this twist on classic nachos, instead.

From Satie to Sun Ra, we salute 13 musicians who defiantly did things their own way - and left music all the richer for it ...

Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and ...

The Guillermo del Toro adaptation brings unique perspective—but fails to match the depth of its source material.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The first telegraph wasn’t really the first. In the fourth century B.C.E., Tacitus, a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, invented the hydraulic telegraph. It ...

In a community where heritage too often becomes performance, singer Konstantinos Argyros's gift to the Hellenic Museum ...