The marble head, measuring 38 centimeters in height, depicts an elderly, bald man with a wrinkled face showing signs of ...

The origins of the Library of Alexandria are still debated by historians, but it was likely established around 295 B.C.E.

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

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...

Alexandria is a city in northern Egypt on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the second largest city in Egypt and is ...

The ancient Greek ideal of World Unity is manifested in the conquests of Alexander the Great aiming to unite the world through Hellenization.

In 368 BCE, Ptolemy orchestrated the assassination of Alexander II, Eurydice’s son and Amyntas’s successor, seizing power as the de facto ruler of Macedon. Alexander II’s younger brother, Perdiccas ...

Ptolemy had carefully investigated the refraction ... influence of Saracen culture than that found in the Emperor Frederic II in the first half of the thirteenth century. In his Sicilian court ...

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 ...

Also known as the “Cosmographia,” “Geographia” or simply “The Geography,” this book written by the Greco-Roman Claudius Ptolemy is considered the world ... to have been destroyed during World War II.