During the Hellenistic and Roman periods ... similar to Muhammad for Islam, Buddha for Buddhism, or Moses as the author of the Torah. However, many scholars attribute a decisive role to Paul ...

Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...

And when the Buddha says there is escape from suffering ... She was a very potent figure in Hellenistic times in the Mediterranean. And she came back with the Virgin in the Roman Catholic tradition.

Buddha, after reaching the state of what is called “enlightenment ... It exhibited the influences of the Hellenistic styles of classical Greek sculptures. The statues were represented wearing Hellenic ...

Archaeologists also found something else that suggests the building was important: a sealed roof tile from the Hellenistic period. The tile was inscribed with the word “Basilique,” indicating ...

“Contrary to previous hypotheses that attributed this structure to the First Temple period, it seems that it was built later—during the Hellenistic period—when the land of Israel was under ...

Archaeologists in Corinth have uncovered a remarkable funerary structure from the Hellenistic period. This discovery was a significant one during the “Ancient Tenea” research program, which was ...

Ptolemaic Egypt was an interesting and complex mixture of cultures. On the one hand, the ruling Hellenistic elite could be incredibly insular, preferring to marry almost exclusively within their own ...