For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

In 2023, archaeologists discovered a royal tomb believed to be over 3,600 years old, the final resting place of one of the ...

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

Queen Cleopatra was survived by her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, who would go on to rule a kingdom of her own in North Africa.

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

Cleopatra was so concerned that Arsinoe would try to challenge her rule again that she orchestrated her own sister’s murder in 41 B.C.E. Egypt’s Ptolemaic rulers had a complicated family tree. King ...

Part of a decree issued by Egyptian priests in honor of the pharaoh Ptolemy III. (Like the Rosetta Stone, the limestone carving features three scripts: hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek.) Image A ...

She was the final active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, Cyrene, and Cyprus, ruling between 51 and 30 B.C. Her father, Ptolemy XII, struggled to hold ... this statue is a limestone bust of an unidentified ...

After the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt by King Narmer around 3100 BC ... and Egypt eventually came under the rule of his general Ptolemy I, marking the start of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.

included the world famous King Tutankhamun's tomb, discovered in 1922. Egypt is full of surprises (Mohamed Elshahed/Anadolu via Getty Images) Situated 340 miles from the Pyramids of Giza ...