Where was the statue of Khafre found? Where did Mansa Musa extend the Mali Empire to? Where is the Borobudur temple? Where was ancient Numidia? Where is the mortuary temple located for Amenhotep III? Where is the Lighthouse of Alexandria located? Where are the Olmec heads located? Where wa...
William Harvey and René Descartes both speculated that there must be somewhere in the body a place where the “vital spirit” or “vital force” is located, animating the body much
To be sure we know of extensive anti-jewish works authored by Apollonius Molon, Manetho, Apion of Alexandria, Porphyry of Tyre and so on, but we have only fragments of these works and little with which to gauge their systematic views on the issue of the jews. Although from what we do...
Located on the west bank of the Nile River near Luxor, is the Valley of the Kings. It is the most famous site for the unique collections of tombs and breathtaking ancient ruins. That location makes it one of the hottest spots for exploring ancient Egyptian history. Archaeologists have been ...
Why was Book of Enoch removed from the Bible? The Book of Enoch was considered as scripture in the Epistle of Barnabas (16:4) and by many of the early Church Fathers, such as Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus and Tertullian, who wrote c. 200 that the Book of Enoch hadbeen...
And in turn Dionysos suffers the loss of his phallos in a story recounted by Clement of Alexandria in the second book of his Exhortation to the Greeks: If you wish to inspect the orgies of the Korybantes, then know that, having killed their third brother, they covered the head of the...
It is sort of like reading Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet in that the personages described as having lived and performed in Montmartre in the 1920s and 1930s were all larger than life, and their stories and lives cannot be reduced down to one understanding of who they were or what...
She was buried with Antony in a mausoleum (a large tomb), ancient writers claimed. Recent media reports have claimed that archaeologists are on the verge of discovering this tomb at a site called "Taposiris Magna," located about 31 miles (50 kilometers) west of Alexandria. For the past ...
Although biological relationships are a universal reality for all human beings, the concepts of “family” and “family bond” depend on both the geographic region and the historical moment to which they refer. However, the concept of “family” can be determinant in a large variety of societies...
The temples are located several hours drive south of Aswan, but most tourists actually arrive at Abu Simbel by plane. The flight from Aswan is only 30 minutes and there are two flights a day, timed so that tourists will have about two hours to spend at the temples. Aswan was also the ...