The ancient Egyptians sure loved gold, and it seems they saw human suffering as a small price to pay for the precious metal.

The Ptolemaic Dynasty, established by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter, ruled Egypt for almost three centuries.

Archaeologists have made an incredible discovery of what lies beneath a temple and is considered to be a "geometric miracle".

The second-largest city in the Roman Empire is now the second largest in Egypt. Here's what to know if you go.

Kathleen Martinez of the University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and her colleagues were responsible for the ...

Child: Oh dear. Abdul: When Alexander of Macedon expanded his empire he conquered Egypt, and made himself pharaoh! After he died, the descendants of his general, Ptolemy ruled for nearly 300 years!

Ptolemy III Euergetes (Benefactor) carried on successful military campaigns (see 91.100) that brought new wealth into Egypt, resulting in the minting of octodrachms and other gold denominations and a ...

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 ...

We're in Egypt, with Ptolemy V, a Greek boy-king who came to the throne as an orphan in 205 BC, at the age of six. Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander ...

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 climate of Egypt, especially the desert ... the agent of Apollonios, a minister to Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ruled 285-246 BCE). From this archive we learn about Zenon’s life as a Greek born in ...