Sir, Chris Giles (“Economists’ rare unity highlights the perils of Brexit”, June 16) is correct in noting that by arguing against Brexit, economists themselves will be on the line, especially if a ...

Thales of Miletus was a Greek mathematician and philosopher who espoused the belief that water was the originating principle of nature, essentially making it the most important substance in the world.

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 Numismatic Chronicle is published at the end of each year. Each volume, containing up to 600 pages of articles, notes and reviews of selected new publications, is sent free to all Fellows whose ...

There once was a man. His name was Thales. He lived a long, long time ago in Miletus, an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Turkey. Thales had an idea. It was a new and dangerous idea. He ...