Ahram Online

Private tombs after the New Kingdom

From the Third Intermediate Period through the Late, Ptolemaic, and Roman eras, ancient Egyptian private funerary monuments underwent marked architectural and ritual reconfigurations ...
Review of Religions

The Five ‘Wandering Stars’ – Part VI

In the final installment of this series, we examine how the Holy Qur’an inspired and invigorated centuries of Muslims scientists to uncover the mysteries of the cosmos.We dive into why this ...
Review of Religions

The Five Wandering Stars Part III: The Doubts Movement and Islamic Scholarship

In the previous parts of this series, the author unpackaged the earliest theories of the cosmos, especially how Geocentricity came to be widely accepted, despite the ‘Five Wandering Stars’ throwing a ...
Global Times

Egypt unveils Ptolemaic-Roman military fortresses in Sinai

The undated photo shows uncovered remains of military fortresses and residential units for soldiers dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, in the North Sinai Province, Egypt. (Photo: Xinhua) ...
Greek Reporter

Ancient Ptolemaic and Roman Military Structures Uncovered in Egypt’s Sinai

The discovery, made by the Egyptian Archaeological Mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities, includes parts of two ancient fortresses, military housing, and defensive trenches. Experts believe ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Ancient Ptolemaic statue returns to Libya after decades

Libya recovered an ancient statue from the Ptolemaic era that had been displayed in the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, after being smuggled out of the country during World War II. An official ...
Nature

The Ptolemaic Geography of Africa

AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very different ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See the Haunting Stone Face of a Ptolemaic Statue Unearthed Near the Ancient Egyptian City of Alexandria

The marble head dates to Egypt's Ptolemaic period (305 to 30 B.C.E.), but it was found in a seventh-century C.E. house. Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities As a team of French archaeologists ...
La Brújula Verde

A huge marble head of a monumental statue from the Ptolemaic period, found in a medieval house at Taposiris Magna

A remarkable archaeological discovery has been made at Taposiris Magna, a historic site located 45 kilometers west of Alexandria, Egypt. A French archaeological mission led by Dr. Joachim Le Bomin, in ...
Egypt Independent

Archaeologists uncover bust from the Ptolemaic era in Alexandria

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 ...
sambadenglish

Ptolemaic-period tombs uncovered in Egypt

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 ...