Ancient thinkers struggled to tell facts from falsehoods just like we do – and their strategies are still relevant today.

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

History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their names.

The Greeks proposed the idea that humans are a form of artificial intelligence. Prometheus and Hephaestus use technology to ...

The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched, but certain researchers think ...

THE traditional view that the knowledge of astronomy of the Greece of classical times had been derived from Egypt, a view to which the writings of the Greeks themselves lent support, has lost favour ...

Lalit Mengi lkmengi@rediffmail.com India had blazed a trail across the world, in the millennium and a half from 250 BC to ...

The answer is as obvious as it seems – the Earth looks flat when you're standing on it, not cone-shaped. Visual evidence ...

The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...