The legendary Macedonian King Alexander III, famously known as Alexander the Great (who was educated by the titanic Greek ...

The night sky in July a phenomenon that reminds skywatchers how remarkable it is just to be alive and to experience such ...

The earliest reference is in second-century Greek astrologer and geographer Claudius Ptolemy’s illustrated Geographia, which famously calls the Malay Peninsula “the Golden Chersonese”.

Later Greek geographers like Strabo (1st century BCE-1st century CE) consistently used the name "Persian Gulf." Roman historians and geographers, including Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century CE) and ...

Later Greek geographers like Strabo (1st century BCE-1st century CE) consistently used the name "Persian Gulf." Roman historians and geographers, including Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century CE) and ...

Claudius Ptolemy will take a bow! Over the last few years, Tamil Nadu has negotiated a stream of headwinds to cover a ridiculously long distance in time, from K ...

At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to organize the information and give it a scientific approach. His name was ...

Claudius Ptolemy was an Alexandrian polymath who used his skills to create an atlas around 150 CE; this gathered together all of the known geographic information of the 2nd century Greco-Roman world.

Ancient history of noting retrogrades Claudius Ptolemy, an ancient Greek astronomer, had one of the first written records of explaining retrograde motion in the second century A.D.

Throughout the centuries, the mythical Stone Tower has been a fascinating enigma for geographers, historians, and archaeologists worldwide. This location is mentioned in Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography ...

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