A cache of 337 coins bearing Cleopatra VII’s image sheds new light on the age of the Temple of Taposiris Magna—and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was born in 69 BC into the Ptolemaic dynasty, founded by Ptolemy I, a Macedonian Greek, a part of the army of Alexander the Great, who had conquered Egypt and founded ...

among other odors Sarah Everts Some citizens and archaeologists are concerned about what they see as widespread "mismanagement" of Egypt's rich cultural heritage Eli Wizevich The discovery might ...

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 ...

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

A Roman noblewoman asks her friend about Cleopatra in Cecil B DeMille ... and revulsion by the Roman elite, the race of Ancient Egypt’s most famous queen is not what seems to preoccupy the ...