The legendary Macedonian King Alexander III, famously known as Alexander the Great (who was educated by the titanic Greek ...

Ptolemy II (I’s son) married Arsinoë I who provided him his legitimate heir, Ptolemy III. No incest there, until Ptolemy II married his full sister Arsinoë II as his second wife, who is ...

Thirty years after its discovery, pieces of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which stood watch long ago in the harbors of ...

Built by Sostratus of Cnidus and finished during the reign of his son Ptolemy II of Egypt in about 280 B.C., the lighthouse is estimated to have stood 350 feet tall, surpassed only by the pyramids ...

A few decades later, it was moved to the Soma, a mausoleum in Alexandria’s royal quarter, probably during the reign of Ptolemy II. The body remained in the Soma for several centuries.

Built by Sostratus of Cnidus and finished during the reign of his son Ptolemy II of Egypt in about 280 B.C., the lighthouse is estimated to have stood 350 feet tall, surpassed only by the pyramids ...

Built by Sostratus of Cnidus and finished during the reign of his son Ptolemy II of Egypt in about 280 B.C., the lighthouse is estimated to have stood 350 feet tall, surpassed only by the pyramids ...

Built by Sostratus of Cnidus and finished during the reign of his son Ptolemy II of Egypt in about 280 B.C., the lighthouse is estimated to have stood 350 feet tall, surpassed only by the pyramids ...

Built by Sostratus of Cnidus and finished during the reign of his son Ptolemy II of Egypt in about 280 B.C., the lighthouse is estimated to have stood 350 feet tall, surpassed only by the pyramids ...