The origins of the Library of Alexandria are still debated by historians, but it was likely established around 295 B.C.E.
In the once-thriving Greco-Roman city of Ptolemais, situated on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, Polish archaeologists have ...
What are the various places visited by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey on his journey from Troy to his homeland, Ithaca?
Archaeologists have discovered the economic section of a city residence in the ancient city of Ptolemais on the Mediterranean ...
In some ancient stories, people’s pets were sometimes ... The philosopher Lacydes of Cyrene (died 205 BCE) had a close bond with his pet goose: when he went for a walk, it went too.
The ancient Greeks named the world’s first created ... Queen Pheretime, a sixth-century B.C. ruler from Cyrene (in modern-day Libya) took revenge on her son’s killers by having them impaled ...
It is known that Ptolemais is located in Cyrenaica, a historical region in modern northeastern Libya. According to historians ...
On the coast of the Cyrenaica region in present-day Libya lies the ancient city of Ptolemais, founded by the Egyptian ...
This iconic shape dates back to the Ancient Greek city of Cyrene — in modern-day Libya — where, between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC, coins circulated depicting seeds in that distinctive shape. These ...
The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.