Alexander the Great met his end in the year 323 BC. After his death, the Empire was broken into four distinct successor states. These included Antigonid Macedonia, Attalid Pergamum, Seleucid Syria, ...

The tombs that the team identified recently date specifically to the Ptolemaic period. The Ptolemaic dynasty was a royal family of Macedonian Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the ...

Cairo: A joint Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission has uncovered several Ptolemaic-period (332-30 BC) tombs in Al-Bahnasa archeological site in southern Egypt's Minya province, the Egyptian ...

IN my review of the Salusbury translation of Galileo's “Dialogue”, revised by Giorgio de Santillana, in Nature of September 7, I wrote that this was the first modern edition of the work in the ...

On the side of the coin on the left is the head of a woman, wearing a necklace, small pendant earring, and a headband with a barely legible inscription in Greek characters: K I M O N. Her long curly ...