As a team of French archaeologists excavated a seventh-century C.E. dwelling at Taposiris Magna, an ancient city located ...

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

During the Middle Ages much of Ancient Greek and Roman scientific ... Now researchers have managed to recover the text written by Ptolemy on a parchment that suffered such a previous recovery ...

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is offering a $1 million bounty to experts who can successfully interpret the Indus Valley ...

That assessment hardly endeared Newton to other historians of ancient science. One refutal by Owen Gingrich ruefully admits that The Syntaxis contains some fishy data, but he suggest that Ptolemy ...

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

Child: Ancient Egypt is so different from the Egypt ... After he died, the descendants of his general, Ptolemy ruled for nearly 300 years! The Ptolemaic dynasty ended with the death of Cleopatra ...

from ancient Roman times to the present day, as the tools of the cartographic trade evolve from flights of fancy to high-flown satellite imagery. Claudius Ptolemy (150 AD) map drawn from Ptolemy's ...

In the 1200s, a Chinese official described Alexandria and its lighthouse in remarkable detail given the vast distance.

Egypt unveiled several discoveries near the famed city of Luxor on Wednesday, including ancient rock-cut tombs ... the Great dating to the Time of Ptolemy I (367-283), children's toys made of ...

Ptolemy's treatises, which drew upon both Greek and Egyptian astrological traditions, helped to cement the enduring legacy of ...