Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the biggest prize in the ancient world ... the winter of 48 BC in Egypt. There he met Cleopatra, the woman who would ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon proved to be the key to deciphering the long-lost language of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Inscribed in 196 B.C.E., the so ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...

Scientists thought a tomb with similarities to buildings from Ptolemaic Egypt had been erected in memory of Cleopatra’s half sister, Arsinoë IV.

Since Greek was understood, the hieroglyphs could then be translated into modern European languages, so the Rosetta stone was the key to the hieroglyphic ... records of ancient Egypt give us ...

For decades, scholars have believed that a skeleton discovered by archaeologists in the ruins of the ancient city of Ephesos in 1929 belonged to Cleopatra’s half-sister, Arsinoe IV. However, recent ...

Some citizens and archaeologists are concerned about what they see as widespread "mismanagement" of Egypt's rich cultural ... link between the blue pigment's ancient Egyptian roots and its ...

Conjuring up images of Ancient Egypt typically involves Hollywood ... second only to the Quetzalcóatl Pyramid in Mexico. The ...