Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

He was the golden boy of ancient Rome. Did someone want him dead? ... In Antioch, his funeral was a simple affair, but Tacitus relays that mourners offered “recollections of his virtues.

The earthquakes of 115 CE, in which 260,000 people are estimated to have died; and 526, which Malalas wrote of, were particularly significant for Antioch, though the ancient estimates for ...

THE apostle Paul's early preaching covered the ancient city of Antioch. The apostle Peter was said to have established the first Christian church there, the Church of St. Peter, a cave-like structure ...