The long-lost Wonder of the World was rediscovered underwater in 1968. Finally, some of its blocks have been raised to the ...

The paradox behind recent conflicts is that the communities caught in the fray — Jews, Muslims and Christians — are ...

Neither Josephus, living in Judea, nor Philo, in Alexandria, speaks of Christianity. Still, both describe a remarkably similar religion in doctrines and moral precepts.

Jesus says, “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. When he comes, however, being the Spirit of truth he will guide you to all truth. He will ...

But a description of its mechanics is contained in the writings of Philo of Byzantium (Philo Mechanicus). This inventor lived in the Greek city of Alexandria, the location of history’s greatest ...

Coming from Byzantium, the Greek town destined to become the famous Constantinople, Philo eventually moved to Alexandria, that Hellenistic beacon of learning of the post- Alexander the Great Egypt.

Ctesibius (Greek Κτησίβιος) of Alexandria, Egypt, was a Greek inventor and mathematician, the first great figure of the ancient engineering tradition of Alexandria. He is credited with a number of ...

Philon of Byzantion Very little is known about the Greek scientist Philon (ca. 280–220 BC) (sometimes called Philo) of Byzantion (Greek: Φίλων ὁ Βυζάντιος). Byzantion is an ancient Greek city (founded ...

Its invention is attributed to Dionysius of Alexandria, a Greek engineer who worked in the arsenal of Rhodes in the 3rd century BCE. It wasn’t a crossbow in the traditional sense but used a torsion ...

Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish philosopher influenced by Greek philosophy, wrote that the universe was created in line with unchangeable laws of nature. He described a world shaped not by chance, but ...