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

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 ...

A few winter constellations, most notably Gemini the Twins and Auriga the Charioteer, are still hanging out in the western ...

Believe it or not, there are still a few winter constellations, most notably Gemini the Twins and Auriga the Charioteer, ...

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 ...

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