he vastly expanded the Egyptian empire and built many large monuments. He also reigned for more than 60 years, dying in 1213 B.C. Ptolemy I Soter was a general of Alexander the Great and started ...

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

No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, as a new book explains, writes David ...

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 ...

The longest and final dynasty of ancient Egypt, the era opened with the rule of Ptolemy I – a trusted general of Alexander – and saw more than 40 new mines established throughout the kingdom. “The new ...

The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander the Great's generals who, around a hundred years earlier, had taken over Egypt following Alexander's death. The Ptolemies didn't trouble to learn Egyptian ...

Child: Ancient Egypt is so different from the Egypt of ... After he died, the descendants of his general, Ptolemy ruled for nearly 300 years! The Ptolemaic dynasty ended with the death of ...

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 ...

The longest and final dynasty of ancient Egypt, the era opened with the rule of Ptolemy I – a trusted general of Alexander – and saw more than 40 new mines established throughout the kingdom.