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, ...

On the side of the coin on the left is a man and women standing in a four-horse drawn vehicle facing left. The woman holds the reins in her hands, the man to her right wears a helmet, his outstretched ...

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 ...

A heroine to some and a villainess to others, her fate was intimately tied to the fortunes of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, of which she was the last ruler. Today, Cleopatra is most famed for her various ...

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 ...

These findings include artefacts and ceremonial items from the late Ptolemaic era. Among the most discoveries are a marble statuette of a royal woman and a limestone bust of a king wearing the Nemes ...

Shambhala, which is a Sanskrit word meaning “place of peace” or “place of silence,” is a mythical paradise spoken of in ancient texts, including the Kalachakra Tantra and the ancient scriptures of the ...