A Greek research team used radiocarbon dating to make a shocking discovery about Alexander the Great's family.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a Greek engineering marvel that guided ships ...

Alexander the Great forged one of the largest empires of ancient history. But his early death, aged 32, ensured that it came ...

After the death of Alexander the Great, a eunuch named Philetaerus established the ancient Greek city of Pergamon a major ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an archaeological site named for a mound roughly in the shape of a horseshoe, or ...

Egypt goes from glory to disaster in this lively history of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Egyptologist Wilkinson (Ramesses the Great) begins with Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332 BCE and ...

The Pyramids at Giza in Egypt just might be the greatest tourist ... with people like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte all dropping by to bask in their glory.

The collection includes sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut.

The Egyptian expedition is probably the craziest ... following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great.