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

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

Roman historians and geographers, including Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century CE) and Quintus Curtius Rufus (1st century CE), ...

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

Ptolemy's general account of the Nile lakes is sufficiently accurate to show that he wrote from positive information. Otherwise, as Signer De Filippi remarks, he must have been gifted with ...

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 ...

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

King Ptolemy XII Auletes counted among his children at least three queens and two kings. How did one family produce so many rulers? The Ptolemaic royals apparently had a bad habit of executing each ...

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general Ptolemy established the Ptolemaic dynasty that would govern the vast lands of ...

Since he was writing hundreds of years after the death of Alexander, Arrian drew most of his accounts of Alexander’s life from Aristobulus and Ptolemy. In his mind, these were the best sources because ...

As Radiohead and the RSC launch an innovative reinterpretation of Hamlet, a visit to the play's setting in Denmark brings a new dimension to the tragedy. There's a cold wind blowing from the ...

It might come as no surprise, then that among the books he’s recommended is I, Claudius by British writer Robert Graves - a compelling portrait of ancient Rome and a reflection on the use - and ...