Alexander had a love-hate relationship with his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. While at times he appeared to be the ...

The statue of Zeus sitting on a magnificent throne rose about 40 feet inside his temple ... Zeus’s pose and gestures in many works of art.) Visitors from all over the ancient world came to ...

For centuries, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have stirred fascination. These legendary structures, once towering ...

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Great Pyramid of Giza The Great Pyramid of Giza in Ancient Egypt is the only surviving wonder of the ancient world ... Zeus The statue of Zeus was created by Phidias, one of antiquity’s greatest ...

Every so often, though, I wonder ... Second Temple, in 70 C.E., he gave Jesus’s story cosmic dimensions. Now it was the tale of “God’s spirit contending against Satan, in a world filled ...