The ancient Greek sanctuary and theater of Dodona, home to the oldest oracle, are part of a uniquely historic site in the ...

The catapult was an ancient siege machine that could hurl heavy objects or shoot arrows with great force and for considerable distances. Some catapults could throw stones weighing as much as 350 ...

Syracuse became one of the largest urban centers in the ancient Greek world, second only to Athens. (Though, as World History Encyclopedia notes, the population of Syracuse eventually exceeded ...

The catapult was an ancient siege machine that could hurl heavy objects or shoot arrows with great force and for considerable distances. Some catapults could throw stones weighing as much as 350 ...

Pp. xx, 250. Illus., maps, diagr., notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 1848843674 Less famous now than many other ancient cities, during the “Golden Age” Syracuse was the largest, richest, and for ...

China war inevitable? Perhaps that isn’t the lesson leaders should be taking from the ‘History of the Peloponnesian War.’ ...

Although many sought to find it, the calculation of pi, which is also expressed by the fraction 22/7, is commonly credited to Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse more than 2,200 years ago.