A musician’s query as to the origin of a warped ‘wolf’ tone, and a review of a book by physicist Marie Curie, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive. A multi-century climate record ...

The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s grave ...

The purpose of a mysterious pyramidal structure in the Judaean Desert is unknown, but excavators are finding many ...

As his generals fought for control, key battles like Hellespont, Gaza, and Salamis shaped the fate of his empire, with rivals Antigonus, Ptolemy, and Seleucus vying for dominance. Bengals Change ...

Aristarchus proposed this idea around the 3rd century BC. However, the Greek astronomer Ptolemy’s geocentric model dominated science for a millennium. Seleucus supported Aristarchus’ model and ...

The First War of the Diadochi set the precedent for the conflicts that would follow. In these wars, key figures such as Ptolemy, Antigonus, Cassander, and Seleucus emerged as the principal players in ...

AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very ...