The long-lost Wonder of the World was rediscovered underwater in 1968. Finally, some of its blocks have been raised to the ...

Ptolemy II was also the wealthiest king of the world. Another Greek writer, Athenaios, who lived in the second century, quotes a book on Alexandria written by Kallixeimos of Rhodes.

As the eldest, the succession initially fell to Ptolemy Ceraunus. But things turned out differently because his mother’s repudiation led his father to remarry in 317 B.C., and his new wife, Berenice, ...

What survives of Ptolemy’s famed pharos now lies at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1968, a UNESCO expedition identified the ruins of the lighthouse in the ancient port of Alexandria.

A statement from the Egyptian government explains that pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus (309–246 B.C.) established Philadelphia as an agricultural village meant to secure further food resources ...

After his stay in Memphis, Ptolemy II, son of Ptolemy I, had the tomb of Alexander the Great moved to Alexandria, the city founded by the emperor in reference to his own name, ...