Apollonius of Perga, who lived from 240 BC to c. 190 BC, was a brilliant ancient Greek mathematician known for his work on ...

Lots of ancient Greek records contain stories about how they got their alphabet ... Thus, it is evident that the alphabet must have come from Egypt and was then brought to Canaan. The design of the ...

Imagine a summer holiday at a seaside resort, with days spent sunbathing, reading books, exploring nature and chatting with ...

The heady world of the early Christians began with Jewish followers of Jesus and later became dominated by Romans attracted ...

When we read about the Greco-Roman world, we often hear the stories of famous and wealthy men and women. But the letters of ordinary people, preserved on papyri in Egypt, show us what they were ...

Back then, the "X" wasn't meant to be pronounced as "ecks" like we do today, but rather as its Greek counterpart, "chi." Chi, the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός (Christos), meaning "(Jesus) ...

The site is associated with an ancient city of the Achaea region. Investigations primarily focused on a building referred to by the Greek letter gamma ("Γ") that appears to date to before 300 B.C ...

Nikolaos is an ancient Greek name that means "victory of the people" (Niki means victory ... they immediately mobilised. Many wrote letters complaining about the false title to the channel, but the ...

Emails obtained by The Courier Journal under the Kentucky Open Records Act provide a glimpse at the collectibles officers are ...