At the edge of Egypt’s vast Eastern Desert, archaeologists have unearthed haunting evidence of an ancient dark history — ...

The dynasty was founded in 305 B.C. after Alexander the Great of Macedonia took Egypt in 332 B.C. and one of his generals, Ptolemy, became Ptolemy I. Leadership was handed down through Ptolemy’s ...

In a study published March 13 in the journal Antiquity, Redon detailed the rare discovery of shackles at Ghozza, the ...

We're in Egypt, with Ptolemy V, a Greek boy-king who came to the throne as an orphan in 205 BC, at the age of six. Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander ...

Child: Ancient Egypt is so different from the ... After he died, the descendants of his general, Ptolemy ruled for nearly 300 years! The Ptolemaic dynasty ended with the death of Cleopatra ...