Whenever his army went through a place, Greeks were left behind to keep that place controlled. Over time, as more Greeks migrated there, those areas became Greek colonies. The Hellenistic age was when the Greek culture blended with the conquered colonies’ culture.
¨ Unearthed in 1945 by a group of Egyptians digging for fertilizer, the so-called Nag Hammadi codices were one of the most important manuscript discoveries of the twentieth century for the study of religion in the late ancient Mediterranean world, particularly formative Christianity and Judaism.¨
