Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

Snake bracelets from Egypt's Roman Period dating to the first century. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART IN NEW YORK In 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquered Egypt during his military campaign across the ...

Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.

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 ...

BCE, two titans of the Hellenistic world clashed in one of the ancient world’s largest battles to decide the fate of ...

After his death in 323 BC, his empire was divided, and Egypt eventually came under the rule of his general Ptolemy I, marking the start of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. The Ptolemaic rulers accepted and ...

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!

The ancient Greek ideal of World Unity is manifested in the conquests of Alexander the Great aiming to unite the world through Hellenization.

Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy, who lived in Egypt, built upon Babylonian knowledge in his geocentric model of the ...

During this dynasty, Egypt was ruled by Ptolemy I Soter I, a general of Alexander the Great who took over part of the empire following the Macedonian king's death. But dwarves in Egyptian culture ...

Cleopatra followed, bringing along her young son Ptolemy XV Caesar ... ruler of the Roman Empire, an empire which finally included the great kingdom of Egypt.