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

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 ...

Ptolemy's compendium, later known as the Almagest, dominated Western astronomy for 15 centuries. It was also wrong, and it took the fall of an empire to fix it. A basic understanding of the solar ...

inspiring visions of a lush empire far to the south. In accord with the Greek ideals of symmetry and harmony, geographer and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy declared that a great northern landmass ...

Cleopatra followed, bringing along her young son Ptolemy XV Caesar ... They divided the Roman Empire between them. Augustus took Rome, and Marc Antony took Egypt. Marc Antony fell in love with ...

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.

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!