Cleopatra VII Philopator was an astute ruler who used her charms to win over the most powerful men in the ancient world as ...

After the conquests of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty established Alexandria, the jewel of the ...

Some of the mummies discovered recently in the Ptolemaic-era tombs were found with pieces of gold shaped into the form of a ...

IN my review of the Salusbury translation of Galileo's “Dialogue”, revised by Giorgio de Santillana, in Nature of September 7, I wrote that this was the first modern edition of the work in the ...

A statue discovered at Cleopatra’s tomb allegedly reveals the Egyptian queen’s true face. An Egyptian-Dominican ...

MORE than a dozen Egyptian mummies embellished with gold tongues and fingernails have been uncovered by archaeologists. Surrounded by ancient amulets, the colourful 2,000-year-old tombs were found ...

Archaeologists uncover richly decorated Ptolemaic tombs, golden-tongued mummies, and rare artifacts in Egypt's Al-Bahnasa, ...

CAIRO, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- A joint Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission has uncovered several Ptolemaic-period (332-30 BC) tombs in Al-Bahnasa archeological site in southern Egypt's Minya ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered intriguing artifacts in an excavation in Egypt, including golden "tongues" and "nails," ...

A joint Egyptian-Spanish mission from Barcelona University and the Institute of the Ancient Near East has uncovered a special ...