Dear White People star DeRon Horton revealed he was shot before the holiday season and is now on the mend outside of the ...

Now researchers have managed to recover the text written by Ptolemy on a parchment that suffered such a previous recovery attempt. Outermost six rings of the meteoroscope, not to scale.

Following the beginning of the reign of Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals, and the creation of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Greek and Egyptian cultures merged. Mohamed Abdel Badie ...

During the excavation of the temple which was made of stone, the team found the remains of reliefs that showed King Ptolemy VIII (reign circa 170 to 116 B.C.) offering sacrifices to the lion ...

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 ...

This year also marks Storm’s milestone 50th anniversary, and with Black History Month right around the corner, now is the ...

Another was a Roman geographer called Ptolemy who wrote a description of Britain, listing the names of the many British tribes. The Vacomagi lived in and around the Cairngorns. Other unknown ...

January happens to be the birth month of Cleopatra, who arguably tops the list of the most fascinating women in history. She was not the first queen or power figure in Egypt—there were Sobekneferu, ...

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...