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

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

More and more underwater cities are being found by scientists — leading to important discoveries that offer a glimpse into ...

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.

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.

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, ...

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, ...

Built by Sostratus of Cnidus and finished during the reign of his son Ptolemy II of Egypt in about 280 B.C., the lighthouse is estimated to have stood 350 feet tall, surpassed only by the pyramids ...

In 1952, the German-French artist Jean Arp made several trips to Greece, where he encountered the ideas of Claudius Ptolemy, the Greco-Roman astronomer, mathematician and geographer best known for ...

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 ...