The ancient Greeks we admire today regarded these seven men as the wisest of their time. They attributed to them not only the ...

'Water is the principle, the first of all things," said Thales of Miletus, who lived between 624 and 546 BC and is regarded ...

The Pergamon Museum is a remarkable institution at the heart of Berlin, celebrating Greek culture and architecture.

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But life would be different for Aspasia. Born in Miletus, an Ionian Greek settlement on the coast of Western Turkey, she would not be bound by the same rules that restricted Athenian citizen women ...

In 451 Pericles introduced a new citizenship law which prevented the son of an Athenian father and a non-Athenian mother becoming a full citizen. The law's main effect was to curb the power of the ...

One of the wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood for millennia, wearing natural and manmade disasters. A ...

In ancient Greece, philosopher Thales of Miletus noticed something strange. When he rubbed fur on amber, the amber attracted dust. This seemingly trivial observation was the first documentation of ...

In the eastern Aegean, Minoan pottery has been found in Rhodes. Minoan artifacts and cooking equipment have been found at Miletus, a city in Anatolia that would have attracted the Cretans for its ...

The Mediterranean Basin has been the cradle of world civilization since the first settlements in Jericho in 9000 BC. Known in English and the romance languages as the sea "between the lands", the ...

Using a shadow to measure the height of a tower? That’s an old trick with triangles too, used right from the days of Thales ...

Miletus and Pergamon in Asia Minor. These are the shots that German photographer Axel Hütte proposes in the “Chronostasis” exhibition set up in the spaces of the Bisazza Foundation in ...