At the edge of the Mediterranean, off the coast of modern-day Alexandria, an international team has recovered 22 immense ...

Heron of Alexandria is a Greek mathematician and engineer who is mostly remembered for devising a formula to calculate the area of a triangle.

Philon’s works had a great influence over the next generations of mechanics, and are mentioned as a source by many later scientists like Vitruvius, Heron of Alexandria, many Arabic scientists, etc.

Science is full of unsung heroes. Heron of Alexandria made the first vending machine and a steam-powered engine 2,000 years before its time.

Heron of Alexandria gave a description of a wind-powered organ. The first windmills to lift water or to grind grain seem to have appeared in Persia around 800 CE.

Ancient Discoveries was a television series that premiered on December 21, 2003, on The History Channel. The program focused on ancient technologies. The show's theme was that many inventions ...

Everything you hold or touch has an interesting story behind it. The phone which you’re holding right now was a once piece of ...

The Boy and the Heron is legendary director Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece. The 2023 Studio Ghibli film is a triumphant work of art that revisits and interrogates every theme Miyazaki has spent ...

That assumption is not even close to how the invention came to be. “Heron of Alexandria invented a lot of things, many of which helped set the stage for our modern society.

Automatons were already being built in ancient times. The earliest creators include Ktesibios of Alexandria (3rd century BC) and Heron of Alexandria (1st century AD). Among the leading builders of ...