The first hydraulic telegraph was invented in the fourth century B.C.E. by a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, named Aeneas Tacticus.

The Virtual Museum of Ancient Inventions is a project that was begun by students in the course Ancient Inventions, first taught by Marjorie Senechal, which was offered at Smith from 1997 through 2004.

Whether laced with viper venom, poison gas, or deadly pathogens—these weapons of war relied on nature's armory to slay the enemy. Poison in the woundThe Greek warrior Achilles treats Telephus’s ...

Greece / submitted by Don Hart with Ricardo Macagnan of Virginia Beach Last fall was our second visit to Athens, and it seems that something new is always discovered. As a Navy meteorologist, I couldn ...