A career arguing about faith has made religious disagreement easier to understand—but outright atheism more unfathomable.

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

An archaeological disscovery has shed light on the ingenuity of Ptolemais's ancient inhabitants and offers a glimpse into this ancient city's elite.

During the Ptolemaic dynasty, which lasted from 305 to 30 BCE, the Egyptians adopted the Greek zodiac system, but they maintained their own unique approach by assigning Egyptian gods and goddesses to ...

Egyptian archaeologist Dr. Hussein Abdel Bassir described the discovered head as "an important addition to the study of the Ptolemaic era ... of a news analysis system.

In 1609, the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei upended the Earth-centered Ptolemaic view of the universe ... (2.5 million light-years from our solar system). Scheben, 65, retired as a salesman ...

Rather he argued, among other arguments, that the Copernican system was mathematically and physically simpler than the Ptolemaic or Tychonic. His conflict with the Catholic Church involved many ...

The tale of the ancient Greeks in Libya begins in 630 BC with a group of islanders from Thera, Santorini, establishing Cyrene.

There they switched to a settled lifestyle and became experts in water engineering, creating a highly sophisticated system of reservoirs ... to the north and the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt.

The discoveries include a sophisticated water collection system, a mysterious human-face mask, and a well-preserved residence believed to belong to a high-ranking individual. Ptolemais, founded by the ...

The French archaeological mission from the University of Lyon and the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo discovered the head of a marble statue of an elderly man from the Ptolemaic era ...