The discovery included 52 mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era, the structure of a large tomb where 300 mummies had been ...

This marble statuette is emblematic of Ptolemaic-era art: a mishmash of styles with a decidedly Egyptian twist.

IN my review of the Salusbury translation of Galileo's “Dialogue”, revised by Giorgio de Santillana, in Nature of September 7, I wrote that this was the first modern edition of the work in the ...

An entrance to what may have once been a sanctuary was found by researchers among the cliffs of Athribis in a small Egyptian village near present-day Sohag, roughly 124 miles north of Luxor ...

A 2,300-year-old marble statuette discovered in Alexandria, Egypt, has offered new insights into how dwarves were perceived during the Ptolemaic period (332–150 B.C.). Depicting a muscular, nude dwarf ...

Experts on the hunt for the queen's tomb believe that they’ve found a small bust of her—but not everyone agrees ...

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The tombs that the team identified recently date specifically to the Ptolemaic period. The Ptolemaic dynasty was a royal family of Macedonian Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the ...

The main temple at the ancient city of Taposiris Magna has been suggested as the possible resting place of Cleopatra VII.

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