Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty began with the rule of Ptolemy I Soter around 305 ... the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Many Egyptian kings built fortresses in the region, which they considered ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Many unexpected treasures have turned out to be true storytellers, solving mysteries and illuminating the shadows of the past ...

Building activity was concentrated on Alexandria; the lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the world was finished under the king, and he, rather than Ptolemy I, may have been the patron behind the ...

Caesarion (born at the 23th June 47 BC) was the son of Cleopatra VII and Caesar. The child appears early in hieroglyphic Egyptian sources as Pharaoh, and son of Caesar, whereas in Rome itself Caesar ...

1332–1323 BCE), museum CEO Ahmed Ghoneim told the Egypt Independent. The latest batch of King Tut artifacts to arrive at GEM includes the pharaoh’s ceremonial chair, a particularly ornate ...

Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...

Egypt, a gold coin from the reign of Ptolemy I -- a Greek general and successor of Alexander the Great -- and jewelry pieces that date back 2,400 years were also among the items returned ...

A trove of more than 160 treasures from the tomb of King Tutankhamun has been transferred from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, ahead of its long awaited launch ...