As a team of French archaeologists excavated a seventh-century C.E. dwelling at Taposiris Magna, an ancient city located ...

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

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...