Every Time You Open GPS, You Are Using A 2,000-Year-Old Idea

A Science You Use Every Day Did you know that every time you open a map app or check the weather, you are using a science that began thousands of years ago? Geography is not just about countries and ...
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When Africa Led — In Education, Part 6

Formal education in Africa begins early and decisively in Ancient Egypt. By the third millennium BCE, Egypt maintained schools for scribes trained in reading, writing, mathematics, law, and ...
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The First Ancient Greek to Reach Britain and the Arctic

Pytheas of Massalia, an ancient Greek geographer, was the first Mediterranean person to reach Great Britain and the Arctic ...
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Was Olympus a Mountain or a Divine Realm in Ancient Greek Belief?

Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later ...