The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a Greek engineering marvel that guided ships ...

At the age of 20, after the death of his father who was king ... Great, Ptolemy was one of those who disputed control of the great empire established by the emperor. He became ruler of Egypt ...

King Ptolemy XII Auletes counted among his children ... to lead a rebellion against her sister Cleopatra to take control of Egypt. Since Arsinoe IV was younger than all of her sisters, born ...

Around 300 B.C., King Ptolemy I — the new ruler of Egypt and a former general of Alexander the Great — tasked an adviser with a modest mission: "to collect, if possible, all the books in the ...

Scents are even mentioned in the inscriptions found at the Temple of Edfu, where the Egyptian king Ptolemy X is said to have anointed himself with the best perfumes as part of his daily morning ...

"The city was founded in Egypt by the Hellenistic king Ptolemy II Philadelphus between 280 and 270 BCE, and its name translates to "The Great Tomb of Osiris" (the god of death in Egyptian mythology).

and Egypt fell to the Ptolemies. The first Cleopatra, Syra (“the Syrian”), was the daughter of the Seleucid king Antiochus III; her marriage to Ptolemy V in 193 B.C. was orchestrated to ...