By Buthayna El Haggar Astronomy and astrology were deeply intertwined in ancient civilizations, particularly in Egypt and Mesopotamia, where early astronomers and astrologers made profound ...

He was a significant yet controversial figure in the turbulent history of ancient Macedon during the 4th century BCE. Ptolemy of Aloros (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος) first emerged in historical accounts ...

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.