Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

In the northern tower, archaeologists found reliefs of the Egyptian king Ptolemy VIII, who ruled during the second century B.C.E. The artworks depict the king, known for his unstable reign and ...

The temple was believed to be dedicated to Queen Berenice, the wife of King Ptolemy III who ruled Egypt in the 3rd century ...

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 ...