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

Nor was he alone in taking such a route: works such as Ptolemy’s Almagest, fundamental for the medieval study of the heavens, seemed to inhabitants of Christian western Europe easier to understand ...

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 ...

In Space Engineers 2, players travel to the distant Almagest system, a newly discovered, mysterious planetary system that awaits the first colonizers. Initially, it serves as a canvas for space ...

In it, he challenges centuries-old science based on the teachings of Aristotle and Ptolemy, who thought the Earth was at rest at the center of the universe with other planets, including the sun ...

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.

In fact, she belonged to a line of rulers that descended from Ptolemy I. A general and historian, Ptolemy had traveled to Egypt with Alexander the Great. There, Ptolemy set himself up as the king ...

In the late 50s and into the 40s B.C., Cleopatra competed with her siblings – two brothers, both named Ptolemy, and her sister, Arsinoe – to rule Egypt. After 18-year-old Cleopatra married her 10-year ...