The world city of Ephesus, home to the Temple of Artemis — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world — was located 50 miles north of Miletus. At precisely this moment, Heraclitus, the Ionian from ...

The story of static electricity dates back to 600 BCE when Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus made a simple yet profound ...

Using a shadow to measure the height of a tower? That’s an old trick with triangles too, used right from the days of Thales of Miletus in 500 BCE. The Egyptians needed maths to measure and ...