Seas and seas – and seas – of words have been devoted to the spiritual experience of God by mystics such as Philo of Alexandria, Martin Buber and Abraham Joshua Heschel – to name but a few.

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 ...

Its invention is attributed to Dionysius of Alexandria, a Greek engineer who worked in the ... and we only know about it from the description left by Philo of Byzantium, who wrote between 280 and 220 ...

As Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 BCE – c. 50 CE) states; Jewish pilgrims came to Jerusalem from the ends of the earth, and from all the compass points. But with the destruction of the Second ...

A scattering of pock marks on Pompeii’s city walls may prove a mythological “super weapon” may have been real after all.

Philo of Byzantium thrived in Hellenistic Alexandria, where he created most of his automata. Credit: Greek Reporter archive (left), mharrsch, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (right) Let’s be honest, when you think ...

Jacqueline Feke, a philosopher at the University of Waterloo, led a detailed investigation into writings by ancient philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Philo of Alexandria, Nicomachus of Gerasa, ...

Ctesibius (Greek Κτησίβιος) of Alexandria, Egypt, was a Greek inventor and mathematician ... His work is chronicled by many later inventors, e.g. Philo of Byzantion, Vitruvius, Athenaeus, etc., who ...

Hero of Alexandria was well ahead of his time Hero ... a giant siege tower. And finally, Philo of Byzantium is one of the world’s earliest recorded engineers. Also known as Phile Mechanicus ...