The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient Greece.

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Scientists found 80 dinosaur footprints in China that show a meat-eating dinosaur walking, then speeding up for a bit and ...

According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

an ancient language of West Asia. The astronomical material was first detected in 2012, when biblical scholar Peter Williams at the University of Cambridge asked his students to study images of ...

The Himalayas, the world’s highest and most majestic mountain range, stretch across Bhutan, India, Nepal, Tibet, and Pakistan ...

The ancient Greeks settled on the Aeolian Islands sometime in the Bronze Age where they traded with their neighbors ...

A group of international researchers has constructed a comprehensive Southeast Asian population genome variation dataset, ...

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...