An international conference on the origins of galaxies pays tribute to the pioneering scientific cooperation between Muslims, ...

Picture a crowded harbour where the salty seabreeze carries whispers of far-off lands, where merchants of all creed and caste ...

Dubrovka venit ad Miskonem’ (Dąbrówka arrives at Mieszko’s court) – a manuscript with these words, dating back a thousand ...

The books included copies of texts written by well-known writers such as Avicenna, Aristotle, Claudius Ptolemy, and Plato. There are ongoing efforts to make them accessible to the public.

A land or body of water can hold diverse meanings. The Persian Gulf, for example, is a vital waterway for global oil ...

Its invention is often credited to Claudius Ptolemy, a famous Greek astronomer who lived in the Roman Empire during the 2nd century A.D., or even earlier, to Apollonius of Perga between 220 and ...

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An exhibition shows the beauty and disparity of maps in a time of rapid discovery, when the shape of the known world was ever ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities A portrait of a mummy from Faiyum, Egypt, a gold coin from the reign of Ptolemy I -- a Greek general and successor of Alexander the Great -- and jewelry ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled artifacts from the United States, concluding a three-year diplomatic effort ...

In this video, we explore the images that marked our understanding of the Earth seen from above, from ancient Roman Egyptian geographer Ptolemy's 'unknown lands' (150AD) to the latest Nasa's ...