What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?
Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...
The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...
Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.
Archaeologists have just uncovered the first known funeral home from ancient Egypt. The complex included a mummification ...
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A PRETTY UK city has two rather unusual claims to fame – with the home of chocolate and a massive Viking event. Hundreds of ...
Tracing temple-studded coastlines and rivers that gave birth to epoch-shaping civilizations, these sailings reveal how the waves have shaped our world.
On the coast of the Cyrenaica region in present-day Libya lies the ancient city of Ptolemais, founded by the Egyptian pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty in the 4th or 3rd century BCE. This city thrived ...
2,000 year old mummies have been unearthed as more than a dozen found with rare tongues made from golden amulets.
The Pyramid of Cestius is an ancient Roman pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery.