The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s grave ...

At the edge of Egypt’s vast Eastern Desert, archaeologists have unearthed haunting evidence of an ancient dark history — ...

Egyptian Empire Was Built Around Cruelty, Skeletons With Iron Shackles Found in 2,300-Yr-Old Gold Mine Reveal Grim Reality ...

In a study published March 13 in the journal Antiquity, Redon detailed the rare discovery of shackles at Ghozza, the ...

Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...

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 ...

We're in Egypt, with Ptolemy V, a Greek boy-king who came to the throne as an orphan in 205 BC, at the age of six. Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander ...

Pompey, struggling to beat Caesar, fled to Egypt for help. But Ptolemy, trying to impress Caesar, had him swiftly killed. But this, in fact, enraged Caesar who set off for Egypt himself.

AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very ...

Now researchers have managed to recover the text written by Ptolemy on a parchment that suffered such a previous recovery attempt. Outermost six rings of the meteoroscope, not to scale.

Cunning, charming and captivating, the Egyptian Cleopatra was horrifying ... Cleopatra followed, bringing along her young son Ptolemy XV Caesar, also called Caesarion, whom she claimed was ...