CODEX Entry 5114: Ptolemy   Like Alexander’s mother, Olympias, Ptolemy’s mother, Arsinoe, was from the Argead dynasty, claiming ultimate descent from Heracles. Ptolemy served with Alexander fro ...

CODEX Entry 5113: Hephaestion (Hephi)   He was Alexander the Great’s dearest friend and, in youth, his lover. They studied together as children and remained fast friends for their whole lives. A ...

CODEX Entry 5111: Philip II and Olympias   Olympias was Philip II’s fourth wife and was believed to be a member of an orgiastic snake-worshiping cult of Dionysus. Her family claimed descent f ...

CODEX Entry 3903: Van Allen Belt   A Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet ...

CODEX Entry 5110: Alexander the Great   As with much of history, leaders blessed with chance and excellent generals are buried under accolades. Alexander’s astonishing victories over 3 years b ...

CODEX Entry 3700: American Flat-topped pyramids or ziggurats   In dating stone buildings without grouting or wooden beams, and an absence of written records, archaeologists have resorted to ...

CODEX Entry 3630: Sugar Grove Base   Sugar Grove Station is a National Security Agency communications site in West Virginia. The site intercepts all international communications entering the ...

CODEX Entry 3653: Bermuda Triangle and ship sinking   Lab tests and small boat trials have confirmed that bubbles can sink floating objects. The findings add weight to suggestions that methane ...

CODEX Entry 3652: The Tongue of the Ocean   The Tongue of the Ocean (TOTO) is the name of a region of much deeper water in the Bahamas separating the islands of Andros and New Providence. The ...

CODEX Entry 3651: C-46 wreck   On a shallow reef, just off the isolated Norman’s Cay in the Bahamas, lies a wrecked C-46. This WWII-era military transport plane was part of the legendary s ...