The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

A Jewish leader and scholar, Philo (circa 20 BC – 40 AD) risked his life to plead for greater tolerance for Jews in the Roman Empire. Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish leader, philosopher and ...

A powerful storm revealed odd formations on the seabed off the coast of this African country, unveiling an entirely forgotten ...

Christianity spread slowly West from Alexandria and East to Ethiopia. Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th ...

They divided the Roman Empire between them ... Antony and Cleopatra fled back to Alexandria but, within a year, the city was besieged by Roman soldiers. Rather than be captured and taken to ...

his heir Octavian battled Antony for control of the Roman Empire for more than a decade; following Antony and Cleopatra's defeat at Actium, Octavian's forces entered Alexandria in the summer of 30 ...

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How was the Great Library of Alexandria destroyed? Of all the Library's possible fates, the truth is perhaps the most tragic: It was collateral damage in a civil war. The empire split between ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...