The settlement, known as Karanis, was an agricultural town located in the Faiyum Oasis that is thought to have been founded ...

Kepler realized that the orbits of the planets are not perfect circles. His brilliant insight was that planets move in ...

The Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires are usually studied separately, or else included in broader examinations of the Hellenistic world. This book provides a systematic comparison of the roles of local ...

2022. Books Received 72.1. The Classical Review, Vol. 72, Issue. 1, p. 369. The Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires are usually studied separately, or else included in broader examinations of the ...

The ancient Library of Alexandria was—as is known—burned, depriving the world of its wealth of knowledge. But who actually ...

Greek president Katerina Sakellaropoulou visited the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria, accompanied by the Greek Minister of ...

Cleopatra may be the most written-about woman in history, and is certainly the most famous female ruler of any kingdom, ...

Cleopatra VII was a Hellenic queen of Egypt. There exists a temple in Egypt where she is depicted along with her son ...

Scientists found a rock-cut tomb dating back to the Second Dynasty, the burial of a man and a child with masks on their faces, as well as various burials from the late period and the Ptolemaic period.

And the two major areas that survived down to the first century B.C. would have been the Syrian kingdom, the Seleucid kingdom, and the Ptolemaic kingdom which survived in Egypt, which was finally ...

Incredible ancient Egyptian discoveries uncovered in the last six years, from golden-tongued mummies to a slyly smiling ...