in the line of Cleopatras to rule Egypt in 193-30 B.C. Their claims to power rested on blood—and nomenclature. The kings they reigned alongside were, equally unoriginally, all named Ptolemy.

The massive stone block weighed roughly 40,000 pounds and sat in front of a crumbling ancient temple in Egypt. When archaeologists eventually managed to move it, they revealed a forgotten section of ...

Following Alexander’s death in Babylon in 323 B.C., his canny general Ptolemy—who had been granted control of Egypt—stole the dead conqueror’s body before it reached Macedonia, Alexander ...

Child: Oh dear. Abdul: When Alexander of Macedon expanded his empire he conquered Egypt, and made himself pharaoh! After he died, the descendants of his general, Ptolemy ruled for nearly 300 years!

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

We're in Egypt, with Ptolemy V, a Greek boy-king who came to the throne as an orphan in 205 BC, at the age of six. Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander ...

After that, the wider region was ruled by two Macedonian empires: Egypt’s Ptolemaic kingdom, a dynasty founded by Ptolemy I Soter in 305 B.C.E., and the Seleucid kingdom, founded by Seleucus I ...

Cunning, charming and captivating, the Egyptian Cleopatra was horrifying ... Cleopatra followed, bringing along her young son Ptolemy XV Caesar, also called Caesarion, whom she claimed was ...

AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very ...