The ancient Egyptians sure loved gold, and it seems they saw human suffering as a small price to pay for the precious metal.

Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander the Great's generals who, around a hundred years earlier, had taken over Egypt following Alexander's death.

Historical records indicate that "Alexander was growing increasingly despotic and paranoid," Doherty said. Arsenic may have been the poison of choice, Doherty noted, and Ptolemy I Soter ...

A historian with Laboratoire HiSoMA, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, in France, has theorized that ...

AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very ...

Throughout the mid-2000s, the success of “Gladiator” made multiple directors want in on the supposed success of the ...

Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander the Great's generals who, around a hundred years earlier, had taken over Egypt following Alexander's death.