When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

Map: Guilbert Gates ... slopes of a wooded hill 12 miles east of Ariassos. Founded during the Hellenistic period, it otherwise remains a mystery. “All the ancient sources are silent about ...

A stone pyramid structure has just been discovered during an archaeological dig in the Judean desert. Inside were numerous written documents and the remains of remarkably well-preserved ancient ...

Fresh archaeological clues now pin it squarely in the Hellenistic period, right around the time when the Ptolemies were calling the shots after Alexander the Great had exited the stage. Back then, ...

They say it opens a window into a period late in ancient Egyptian history ... An engineer from Cairo’s Ain Shams University uses a Lidar scanner to map the 4,300-year-old tomb of a high-ranking ...

Pre-orders are now up for a new expansion to Hail Caesar alongside a selection of miniatures to sit alongside sit. Warlord ...

Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian settlement likely built by Tutankhamun's father around 3,400 years ago in a huge ...

A small temple at Tell Al-Khazne is believed to belong to the pre-Hellenistic period, a quiet precursor to what came next. In 1958, archaeologists unearthed the jewel of Failaka’s Hellenistic era: a ...

Geological evidence off the coast of Iceland suggests climate change as a key factor in the decline of the Roman Empire.

Until now, it was thought that Kom el-Nugus - a historic site in northern Egypt where the discovery was made - was only occupied from the Greek Hellenistic period, around 323-30 BC. However ...