PBS7 年
The Archimedes Palimpsest
The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...
Greek Reporter13 天
“OK,” Is This Borrowed From the Greek Language, Too?
OK is one of the most frequently used words in the English language, but does it have a Greek origin? There are numerous ...
Greek Reporter4 天
Why Did Ancient Greeks Write Without Spaces or Lowercase Letters?
One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...
protothema.gr8 天
Isaac Newton: The unknown notes in Greek – Lost for 150 years
The great scientist was able to write in English, Latin, and Greek – His family kept the notes for 150 years before handing ...