History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

Cinema in Ancient Greece began with Philion and Heron, who crafted automated theaters, bringing stories to life through motion and spectacle.

The inventions of the hemispherium and the hemicyclium are attributed to Berosus (356-323 BCE), a Chaldean priest and astronomer who brought these types of sundials to Greece. Both dials use the shape ...

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...

Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse calculated the infinite mathematical concept pi in the 200s BCE, which we ...

Pharos, the ancient lighthouse of the port city of Alexandria, was one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. Built on an island in the harbor of Alexandria, the Greeks created a causeway the lead ...

Ancient Inventions was a BBC historical documentary series released in 1998. It was presented by ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones and looked at great inventions of the ancient world. The series is ...

The ancient Greeks ate a plant based diet and Diane explores these roots and principles. This episode is inspired by Pythagoras, the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician. Diane, takes a deep ...