AD: Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy begins his observations of the heavens. 1668: England takes control of Bombay. 1780: The ...

Gold was extracted from Egyptian mines through forced labor to finance the wars and expansion of the ancient kingdom.

Britain's Got Talent star Lettice Rowbotham, who famously wowed the audience in 2014, looked unrecognisable as she celebrated ...

Lettice Rowbotham, who shot to fame on Britain's Got Talent in 2014, looks unrecognisable from her days on the show after ...

Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...

The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

The ancient Egyptians sure loved gold, and it seems they saw human suffering as a small price to pay for the precious metal.

In a study published March 13 in the journal Antiquity, Redon detailed the rare discovery of shackles at Ghozza, the ...

Lead archaeologist Kathleen Martinez believes the tunnel could unlock the mystery of Cleopatra's final resting place.

The conjecture that the Irish, like the other inhabitants of the British Isles are of Hebrew extraction has for many ...

Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

Archaeologists have made an incredible discovery of what lies beneath a temple and is considered to be a "geometric miracle".