Alexander the Great famously founded the city of Alexandria in 331 BCE. It went on to be the capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom ...

During an excavation at a site believed to date back to the Greek-era near Alexandria, archaeologists uncovered a stunning ...

Two Italian scientists claim to have discovered 38,000-year-old structures buried deep beneath the pyramids. But there's a ...

The remains of an ancient city named Lyncus, the capital of the Kingdom of Lyncestis, may have been discovered in […] ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

Focus Features took CinemaCon attendees inside the mind of Wes Anderson on Wednesday afternoon, showing off footage of his upcoming The Phoenician Scheme. This marks the filmmaker’s third major ...

But with the director’s new film “The Phoenician Scheme” we will get the answer to this question: What if Wes Anderson directed a spy film? In the new trailer first shown at CinemaCon ...

Who doesn’t love Google Maps? The Maps Android app helps those of us with oatmeal for brains find our way anywhere, without having to fire any neurons or exercise any synapses. It even helps us ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...