Nectanebo II never did use this sarcophagus, and tradition had long associated it with Alexander the Great. Chugg suggests ...

Paired with savvy sound and lighting design, costuming and the story itself, makeup and prosthetics can turn the human into the inhuman.

Ptolemy, the last king of Mauretania, which included parts of modern-day Morocco, was executed by Roman Emperor Caligula in ...

They had three children: twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene II, and a younger son, Ptolemy Philadelphus. ・Multilingual and Educated: Unlike her predecessors, Cleopatra embraced Egyptian ...

Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass, the head of the joint archaeological mission affiliated with the Zahi Hawass Center for ...

A show at London's RIBA gallery takes visitors behind the scenes of iconic architectural projects, from a Brutalist estate to ...

Gladiator II opens with a Roman fleet brutally laying ... He was succeeded by his own son, Ptolemy of Mauretania, who met a thoroughly Roman end of his own. He was executed for treason by his ...

A bronze sword inscribed with the name of pharaoh Ramesses II (ruled circa 1279 to 1213 ... the temple there found a relief showing King Ptolemy VIII (reign circa 170 to 116 B.C.) offering ...

After the death of Ptolemy Soter I in 282 BC, his son Ptolemy II Philadelphus (meaning “sibling-loving”) ascended to the throne. Under his reign, Alexandria reached its golden age, and the library ...

He rebelled against Antiochus II Theos, taking advantage of the latter’s war with ... who should not be confused with the mistress of the same name of Pharaoh Ptolemy IV Philopator—might not have been ...

Playing as a desert nomad in ancient Egypt, under the reign of Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII ... Yes, Assassin's Creed II's best feature, among many to be fair, is the introduction of the series' most ...