Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish leader, philosopher and scholar in the first century. Born in 30 BC to a wealthy Jewish family in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, he was an important spokesman ...

The world’s first robot operated in Ancient Greece. The automatic maid was the name of a technological miracle during the ...

Ctesibius (Greek Κτησίβιος) of Alexandria, Egypt ... His work is chronicled by many later inventors, e.g. Philo of Byzantion, Vitruvius, Athenaeus, etc., who repeatedly mentioned him.