The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

A 2,000-year-old copper knife handle depicting a gladiator will go on display at Hadrian’s Wall, in the north of England, ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

He attributed the phenomenon to the turmoil of World War II: “ You just didn’t necessarily know where it came from because there was so much movement of material over the war years and after.” When ...

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