Cleopatra and Antony retreated to Alexandria. After prolonged negotiation, Antony's troops defected to Octavian. A year later Octavian marched an army to Egypt to extend his rule, claim his spoils ...

Llewellyn-Jones imagines Cleopatra I arriving in Alexandria aged 17 for her marriage ... she had to help her husband put down a revolt in Upper Egypt, crushed by 185 and commemorated by a new ...

Imagine being this close to discovering Cleopatra’s lost tomb! A woman archaeologist, Kathleen Martinez, has spent nearly two decades searching for it, and she might have finally cracked the code.

Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar’s progressive policies, Caesar Augustus ...

Seeing the longest eclipse in our lifetime is just the start of an unforgettable trip to visit remnants of an ancient ...

At the dawn of the Common Era, the Egyptian city of Alexandria boasted the greatest library of the ancient world. It would last only until 30 BC, when Cleopatra had her fatal encounter with the ...

Cleopatra needed Antony to keep Egypt’s independence and protect her crown ... In 30 BC, Cleopatra and Antony took their own lives after they were tracked down in Alexandria by Octavian’s forces.

D.C., to Miami — to start a new city in Egypt, called Alexandria. He reigned from 367 to 282 B.C., or about 2,300 years ago. Cleopatra, who reigned from 51 to 30 B.C., was the last pharaoh and ...

The city of Alexandria in Egypt is sinking, a study published in the journal Earth’s Future has found. Alexandria is famously known as the birthplace of Cleopatra. The study states that buildings have ...