Regarding the questions posed at the beginning of the essay, the teachings and examples set by the Essene community had a ...

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 ...

This inventor lived in the Greek city of Alexandria, the location of history’s greatest library, in about 250BC. Its university was a boiling pot of philosophy, science and engineering. Philo ...

This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.

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 ...

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 ...

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 and Nicomachus extend the tradition. Later philosophers built on these ideas. Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish philosopher influenced by Greek philosophy, wrote that the universe was created in ...

Most of what we know of Caligula’s life and reign comes from six ancient writers: Seneca the Younger and Philo of Alexandria, both of whom knew him personally; Tacitus and Josephus, who knew ...

Journey to the Seven Wonders Though only one of the ancient marvels still stands, they still engage our imagination—and launch a thousand tours—more than two millennia later ...