When we imagine ancient Greece, we tend to think of marble, tragedies, philosophers, and wars. But the Greeks were also a ...

A correspondence about an ancient Greek letter that was eaten by mice is certainly one of the funniest anecdotal archaeological findings.

The language of the Greeks is a living organism that has endured millennia. Credit: Thomas Wolf, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA ...

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities, focusing on higher-level ...

Over 2,000 years ago, Eucleides, ruler or "archon" or ancient Athens, Greece, helped usher in a standardized Greek alphabet. That alphabet eventually led to the Latin letters we now use. But we're all ...