The international community does not know how long will last the most recent of Zionist's offensives on Gaza, nor it can predict how much damage will be inflicted on the Arab and non-Jewish cultural ...

Jewish life thrives when it is distinct yet welcoming – a balance seen in Medieval Spain, the early Roman Empire, and Ptolemaic Alexandria. Remembering non-Jewish philanthropy offers a fuller ...

Ptolemaic excess could also be signaled in ... of the Nile Valley while at the same time beautifying their capital of Alexandria. Among their many contributions were the city itself with its ...

A French archaeological mission led by Dr. Joachim Le Bomin from the University of Lyon and the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology unearthed a large marble head dating back to the Ptolemaic ...

It's Ptolemaic Egypt. The Greeks are in charge ... I gasped when I first reached Alexandria and its library, and gasped again when I learned the design team had based their building on a real ...

Cairo: A joint Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission has uncovered several Ptolemaic-period (332-30 ... the Taposiris Magna temple complex west of Alexandria. The finds, which include statues ...

Alexandria's magnificent lighthouse, library and museum are all gone. The city has sunk some 20 feet. Ptolemaic culture evaporated as well; much of what Cleopatra knew would be neglected for 1,500 ...

Credit: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority During that era, the region was under the control of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, a Greek empire centered in Alexandria, Egypt. According to Klein, the ...

Cleopatra was a daughter of Egypt – part of the Macedonian-Greek-Ptolemaic Dynasty that had ruled since the ... In 48 BC, encouraged by his court advisors, Ptolemy XIII banished Cleopatra from ...

In this new effort, he focuses most specifically on the Ptolemaic period, which arose after the country was conquered by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. Among other things, this period was known ...