Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

Official history asserts that the Jewish people have existed continuously from the time of Abraham to the present day, thanks ...

Travellers to Alexandria in Egypt can visit the restored apartment of Constantine Cavafy, the favourite bard of Jackie ...

One artifact was popular among Greek aristocrats, suggesting the burial site belonged to someone with high social status, ...

Perhaps among the top historical wonders of the world, this gem in Egypt's rich archeology could disappear due to climate change.

Eunapius of Sardis, a Greek historian and rhetorician who lived between the 4th and 5th centuries AD, wrote a Life of the ...

The fireships were a weapon of necessity used by the skilled sailors in Greece to a devastating, asymmetric effect during the ...

Gold was extracted from Egyptian mines through forced labor to finance the wars and expansion of the ancient kingdom.

In the ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, a great library burned. It was said by some to have held upwards of half a million ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

About 25 miles west of Alexandria in Egypt, the ancient city of Taposiris Magna was founded around 280 BCE by Ptolemy II, a descendant of one of Alexander the Great's generals and an ancestor to ...