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Analysis of the famous Antikythera Mechanism has revealed that its constructors had a very advanced understanding of celestial mechanics, on par with the knowledge of astronomers that lived hundreds of years later.
This device, which was recovered more than 110 years ago from a shipwreck near the Greek island of ... |
2 April 2011
04:03 GMT |
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There's certainly not much new under the sun, as it can also be concluded after reading one of the world's most ancient joke books. The original manuscript is a collection of 1,600 years old Greek jokes, most of which seem strikingly familiar even today, although in a somewhat updated version. The book date... |
19 November 2008
18:01 GMT |
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In time, flowers generated thousands of legends and myths. These legends speak about their powers and magical virtues. No wonder flowers have their secret languages. The rose is by far the flower most charged of symbolism and meaning. 25 Ma year old petrified fossils of roses (Rosa sp) were found. The oldest known hu... |
2 April 2008
17:26 GMT |
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The early Christians included men and women, slaves and free people, rich and poor, Jews and Greeks. The first Christians were Jews only. They inhabited the cities of Galilee (a region of Israel). They were poor people, like Jesus, most of them woodworkers. Some were friends of John the Baptist, a great fearless prop... |
1 April 2008
16:41 GMT |
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When this treasure was buried, during the fifth century BC, western Turkey formed the kingdom of Lydia and its kings had the fame of being the world's richest monarchs. This was especially true for the last Lydian king, Croesus.Herodotus wrote about Lydia, Croesus and his inexpugnable capital, Sardes, said to be... |
25 March 2008
11:15 GMT |
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He was one of the greatest military leaders of the Antiquity: he defeated the Persian Empire and created the largest empire of the ancient world in 13 years only. Alexander the Great had a tomb matching his personality in the city he founded at the mouth of the Nile River in 331 BC: Alexandria. For almost 600 years, ... |
24 March 2008
09:45 GMT |
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If you've enjoyed "Troy", then you could be interested by the fact that archaeologists have discovered a possible place from where Troy's attackers set out. Daniel Pullen, an archaeologist at the Florida State University, first found the ruins in 2001 and recently presented his findings at the annual meetin... |
20 March 2008
04:53 GMT |
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Placed in the center of Greece, north of the Gulf of Corinth, the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi represented, for centuries, the most sought and famous oracle of the ancient world. The spiritual influence and the magic connotations the oracle caused in the mind of the people made the city located at the base of the Pa... |
18 March 2008
17:21 GMT |
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These people are said to descend from the soldiers of Alexander the Great, stranded and established in foreign lands. Kalash people call the peak of the mountains with a word that does not require explanations: Olympus. The discovery in the '80s of Greek inscriptions in a former Kalash area in Afghanistan furthe... |
18 March 2008
16:46 GMT |
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One of the most important discoveries made by man is the paper. Today, paper is so common that we do not even perceive its real value, but till getting to it, the human kind had to wait. People have always felt the necessity of an efficient writing support to fix and preserve their knowledge, feelings, beliefs and, t... |
12 February 2008
07:21 GMT |
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1. Ancient Greek culture founded the western culture, with its modern traits of developing intellectual and scientific skills, a culture based on reasoning, investigation and experimentation. Ancient Greeks developed medicine, logics, aesthetics, metaphysics, mathematics and geometry, and this gave them a profound in... |
5 February 2008
14:11 GMT |
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Any myth contains a grain of truth. This is also the case of Atlantis, the country swallowed by the sea. The myth of the Atlantis, first mentioned by Plato 2400 years ago, talks about a real ancient civilization destroyed by the sea. The Atlantic Ocean got its name from Atlantis, as many people placed its location in... |
15 January 2008
16:36 GMT |
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Vulcan was the Roman god of fire, the equivalent of Hephaistos in the Greek mythology. In ancient times people regarded volcanoes as gods, which were worshiped. Old Greeks believed the Earth was a floating disc over the surface of an ocean whose storms triggered earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Anaximander (611-54... |
17 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Any myth contains a grain of truth. This is also the case of Atlantis, the country swallowed by the sea. The myth of the Atlantis, first mentioned by Plato 2400 years ago, is about a real ancient civilization destroyed by the sea. The Atlantic Ocean got its name from Atlantis, as many subsequent civilizations placed ... |
10 December 2007
10:15 GMT |
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1.The five Olympic circles represent the five continents: Africa, North and South America, Asia and Australia. They are connected to symbolize the sports friendship amongst all the people in the world. 2.The Olympic motto "citius, altius, fortius" means "faster, higher, stronger" in Latin. 3.The Olympic flame burned ... |
7 December 2007
08:17 GMT |
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One of the richest and most varied histories in the world is that of Greece, along with that of Egypt and Japan... And many others, but for now we'd better stop listing. All we care now is about Greece...Well, since we're on this subject, history really doesn't matter much, especially when many see in ... |
7 September 2007
09:05 GMT |
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The civilization of the mighty ancient Greek warriors, called Mycenaean, that destroyed Troy disappeared 3,000 years ago. But now roadworks in southern Greece have dug out a rare Mycenaean grave thought to be much older than 3 millennia and containing important burial offerings including a gold chalice, announced the... |
19 July 2007
04:57 GMT |
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The news service powered by the Mountain View company received some new goodies that surely make the product more attractive for the people from all around the world. For example, Google debuted a few weeks ago two new versions of Google News, allowing the users to view only a text flavor of the product or another ed... |
9 July 2007
02:50 GMT |
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Some while ago, Tecmo said something of having a secret project in the works for Nintendo's Wii. As it turns out, they did. At the Tecmo Nite Out, the company announced Project Rygar for the Wii, as IGN reports. This is an extremely anticipated confirmation coming from the developer, as rumors of other games fro... |
14 May 2007
17:56 GMT |
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A surprising discovery has been made in the Greek island of Kefaloni, located in the Ionian Sea, between Greece and Italy. Archaeologists have dug a Roman-era theater and tomb, containing gold jewelry, pottery, and bronze offerings. This the first finding of this type on an island in the Ionian Sea and it points out a... |
10 April 2007
05:03 GMT |
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Greek archaeologists have found a 2,200-year-old statue of the goddess Hera, inside the walls of a city, near Mount Olympus, the place where ancient Greeks believed their gods lived. The headless marble statue was found during the 2006 diggings in the ruins of ancient Dion, some 53 miles (90 km) southwest of Thessalo... |
2 March 2007
07:28 GMT |
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