Julius Africanus

Sextus Julius Africanus was a traveler and Christian historian of the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries CE. Little of his life is known. Julius claimed to be a native Jerusalemite. His work Africanus Chronographiai is a five volume history of the world from "Creation" to 221 CE. This history which was a type of apologetic literature is no longer extant but is quoted by later authors such as Eusebius, Syncellus, Cedrenus, and Chronicon Paschale.