6 sentences with “west”

These beliefs still abound today on the west coast of Africa and in the Suan, south of the Sahara and also in the Congo.

To the west, it was during the Bronze Age that the first distinctly Greek civilisations emerged: the Minoans on the island of Crete and the Mycenaeans in Greece itself.

Later, invaders called "bandit bands" from what is now Libya, west of Egypt, further undermined the kingdom, and it eventually fell into a long period of political fragmentation.

On the other hand, Plato places Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean, "beyond the Pillars of Hercules", known today as the Strait of Gibraltar. He even speaks of a continent to the west of it.

In a sense, then, the Greeks invented the idea of west and east, but they did not extend the idea to anyone but themselves, certainly including the "barbarians" who inhabited the rest of Europe. In other words, the Greeks had no concept of "Western Civilisation", only Greek vs. barbarian.

In Papworth Everard, a village west of Cambridge, England, the renowned British heart surgeon John Wallwork recently carried out a fascinating experiment: he fitted a 62-year-old man with a metal heart. This artificial prosthesis will not be replaced by a human heart because the aim of the doctors is that it can remain beating forever.