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 geography ...

Alexander the Great, one of the most famous conquerors in history, was born in 365 BC. At the age of 20, after the death of his father who was king of Macedonia, a region in the north of Greece, ...

The young princess Cleopatra VII, known today as simply Cleopatra, became queen of Egypt in the year 51 BCE. Thrust onto the world stage by her father, Ptolemy XII, she ruled a country in tumult, one ...

Construction workers digging for sewer lines in the Egpytian city of Tama instead unearthed something incredible: an elaborately carved, 2,200-year-old temple from the era of King Ptolemy IV.