Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 2,200-year-old gold coin depicting the ancient King Ptolemy III, an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra. The coin, which bears the image of the King on one of ...

One such clash took place near modern-day Gaza, at the Battle of Raphia, where Ptolemy IV, the King of Egypt, and Antiochus III the Great, the King of the Seleucid kingdom (which stretched from ...

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 ...

It was three-quarters of a century ago today, on November 5th, 1922, that Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the boy-king, Tutankhamun ... Claudius Ptolemy was born around AD 85, and spent ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a long-lost 2,200-year-old temple thought to belong to Pharaoh Ptolemy IV. The ancient tomb structure was accidentally found by construction workers during ...

The Ptolemy of the title, named for an Egyptian king, has fallen on the hardest of times: His dementia is so far gone he can barely function, his apartment is the definition of squalid.

Ptolemy Caesar “Theos Philopator Philometor”—“Ptolemy Caesar, The God Who Loves His Father and Mother”—became king of Egypt at the tender age of three. His alleged father, Julius ...

The sphinx was discovered in the Kom Obmo temple. Archeologists also uncovered two sandstone reliefs from King Ptolemy V in the temple. The Kom Ombo temple is considered a double temple.