Tag: Ancient Civilization

  • Nation & World

    Houghton exhibit features ‘luminous’ historian

    While Edward Gibbon was publishing his six-volume opus, “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” a large portion of Britain’s empire was declaring its independence and fighting to break free of the mother country.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Ancient practice sans theory

    Move over, Archimedes. A researcher at Harvard University is finding that ancient Greek craftsmen were able to engineer sophisticated machines without necessarily understanding the mathematical theory behind their construction.

    3 minutes