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 ancient city of Antioch is one of the most important cities in the history of Christianity - in fact, it is supposedly in this city where the word "Christian" was first coined.

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 ...