The city of Thônis-Heracleion was once Egypt's largest port on the Mediterranean Sea, controlling trade for centuries before ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

As a team of French archaeologists excavated a seventh-century C.E. dwelling at Taposiris Magna, an ancient city located around 30 miles west of Alexandria along Egypt’s northern coast, they found two ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

The French archaeological mission from the University of Lyon and the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo discovered the head of a marble statue of an elderly man from the Ptolemaic era ...

Sayadin” or The Fishermen’s Village, is best known for its vibrant fishing industry, featuring a bustling fish market and a ...

Alexandria, Egypt's second-largest city, overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. It's situated at the mouth of the Nile River on the western edge of the Nile Delta, which is one of the world's largest ...

Egypt, thinks she's close. The tomb may be hidden beneath the streets of modern-day Alexandria, at the intersection of two ancient thoroughfares, she said. An intriguing Hellenistic statue and other ...

Scientists thought a tomb with similarities to buildings from Ptolemaic Egypt had been erected in memory of Cleopatra’s half sister, Arsinoë IV.

Some citizens and archaeologists are concerned about what they see as widespread "mismanagement" of Egypt's rich cultural ... link between the blue pigment's ancient Egyptian roots and its ...