In the Satrap Stela (311/10 BC), Ptolemy confirms land donations to the priest of Buto, following Egyptian royal traditions, despite being only a satrap of the young Macedonian king Alexander ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

Explore Antiochus III's campaigns, from battling revolts in Media and Persia to his epic conquests during the Fourth Syrian ...

Ptolemy Dean's new book, 'Streetscapes: Navigating Historic English Towns'. examines the streetscapes of our historic towns and marvels at what we can easily take for granted. Its author encourages us ...

But in fact she was descended from Greeks and spoke Greek. Her dad was called Ptolemy and his ancestor was one of Alexandra the Great’s generals. Even her name is Greek. It translates as ...

Rain poured. Nineteen guns boomed. The Empress of Scotland docked at Quebec last week bearing Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, the new Governor General of Canada (TIME, June 21 et seq ...

Norseman Capital (TSE:FTZ) has released an update. Fitzroy Minerals has entered a deal to acquire Ptolemy Mining, which holds promising copper exploration properties in Chile’s copper-rich district.

After the Congress party lost power in Haryana in the 2014 polls, nothing went right for the satrap. The ruling BJP at the ...

Taking a leaf out of his father the late Mulayam Singh Yadav’s book, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is now relying on regional satraps in the upcoming bypolls to 10 assembly seats in Uttar ...

In an essay titled, A Persian Tale of Good and Evil, which opens the anthology Woman Life Freedom, graphic artist Marjane Satrapi and scholar Abbas Milani invoke writer James Joyce’s famous ...