Ever wonder what Greek music sounded like circa 450 BC? Well, a bunch of smart people came together and figured out vocal notation on Greek pottery. Voila. The ghosts of the ancient…
Ancient Greece
Ancient oracles approached the ancient portal and received hallucinations and visions from the noxious fumes belching forth, reports Discovery News: A “gate to hell” has emerged from ruins in southwestern Turkey, Italian…
Do not go here alone after dark. Live Science writes: A giant cave that might have helped serve as the inspiration for the mythic ancient Greek underworld Hades once housed hundreds of…
Dr. Mark A. Wolfgram writes a fascinating letter to the Financial Times: Sir, The August 17 commentaries by Richard Florida (“The inchoate rage beneath our global cities”) and John Kay (“Why the…
Andrew Carol, a software engineer for Apple, has re-created a 2,000 year old Greek computer, the Antikythera Mechanism, using Legos. Ancient Greeks created this device around 100 B.C. to predict astronomical events, such as eclipses.