Archaeologists in Agrigento, Sicily just unearthed an ancient classroom where students listened to lectures more than 2,000 ...

The ancient school complex had a gymnasium with a large swimming pool and 650-foot tracks, archaeologists said.

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism is 2,000 years old and has long puzzled scientists. New research into its ...

A New York father and NAACP leader is demanding his school district discontinue its new "Spartans" mascot, alleging the ...

Eratosthenes became the first person to calculate the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy, a feat that stands as a ...

Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in Taranto, Italy, was another in a long line of polymaths from Ancient Greece.

Orthodox Easter differs from Western Easter is several ways. Here, experts break down what Orthodox Easter is, when it takes place this year, and how parents can involve their kids in celebrating the ...

The ancient Greek roots of the cross symbol, its significance in cosmology, religion, and philosophy, long before ...

Greek divers found a shipwreck in 1900 with a 2,100-year-old ancient device so sophisticated that researchers have only recently solved its mysteries.

Math is full of enormously complicated abstract ... In the third century BC, for instance, the ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of the Earth—roughly 25,000 ...

A major archaeological discovery in Greece reveals that an ancient tomb was transformed into a healing sanctuary. This site, located near Corinth, bears witness to different uses throughout the ages.

The girl demonstrated how some Japanese students become so adept at mathematics on a soroban that they can do away with the actual device and perform calculations mentally. Two other Japanese ...