Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery, at the Michael C. Carlos Museum through December 15, is a visually handsome work of meticulous scholarship that attempts to bridge some of the greatest ...

A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

Two Louisiana teens, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson, developed an original trigonometric proof for the Pythagorean ...

Archaeologists in Italy have stumbled upon some intricate artwork inside a small Pompeii house that reportedly was buried in ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.

Mathematicians in China and the United States say they have developed a “model of everything” that simplifies complex systems in the body, society and the environment by revealing their ...

Starting today, all of Fresco’s premium features are no longer locked behind a paywall. The app first launched in 2019 and isn’t particularly well-known compared to more established Adobe apps ...

Two "rare" paintings by LS Lowry have sold for a combined sum of more than £1.8m. A painting of Senhouse Street in Maryport, Cumbria, went under the hammer at Christie's auction house and sold ...

Robert Brook via Getty Images In the 17th century, French monk and mathematician Marin Mersenne developed a method to find prime numbers: values that are only divisible by themselves and one.

The ancient Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and lasting until ...

He wasn’t alone: Some of the graduate students who shared his Paris office were there, too. But he didn’t care. The mathematician realized that he could finally confirm a sneaking suspicion he’d first ...

In three visits to London between 1899 and 1901, the French Impressionist, then approaching 60 years of age, embarked upon one of the most ambitious series of penetrating paintings ever undertaken ...

In all accounts of this story in Greek mythology, motivated by love and desire, Paris’ choices had disastrous implications for his family and city. His tale has inspired numerous works of literature ...