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

Underneath a temple in the ancient ruined city of Taposiris Magna, archaeologists discovered a vast tunnel, referred to by experts as a "geometric miracle". The structure was discovered 13 metres (43 ...

Nathalia Holt’s book begins irresistibly. The year is 1928. Two sons of Theodore Roosevelt called Ted and Kermit – yes I know ...

A n international team of archaeologists successfully raised 22 monumental blocks from the seabed near the site of the ...

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

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 ...

Ptolemy II and Ptolemy III — its Ptolemies all the way down — were inspired leaders who harnessed the wealth of the Nile and the storehouses of the pharaohs to create a realm of fabulous wealth. And ...

The city and temple were established by the pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus between 280 and 270 B.C.E. in honor of the god. Dating to the Ptolemaic period, Taposiris Magna is a rich archaeological ...

Thought to have been founded during the reign of Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the 3rd century B.C., the temple was dedicated to Osiris—a deity in the ancient Egyptian pantheon associated ...

Ptolemy I did not live to see his lighthouse built. His successor Ptolemy II oversaw its completion 12 years after the first stone was laid.

While we don’t know the exact year the Library of Alexandria was erected, its construction is typically attributed to the reign of Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II. These pharaohs were successors of ...