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Have you ever wondered who is behind geometry's most fundamental truths? You guessed it: it is Euclid of Greece.
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The Antikythera Mechanism Was Thought To Be A Celestial Measuring Device, But It Turns Out It's Still Stumping ResearchersSince its discovery off the Greek island of Antikythera in 2001, the Antikythera mechanism was long thought to be a […] ...
Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation.
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Was Talos, the Bronze Automaton Who Guarded the Island of Crete in Greek Myth, an Early Example of Artificial Intelligence?One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...
The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...
The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...
The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...
It served as the inspiration for the 'Dial of Destiny' in the final Indiana Jones movie. And now scientists believe they may ...
But the ancient Greeks beat all of these individuals to the punch by more than 2,000 years. As Adrienne Mayor, a classicist at Stanford University, argues in her 2018 book Gods and Robots ...
In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...
The Ship of Theseus thought experiment is a long-standing problem in philosophy that has been debated for centuries.
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