No travel destination in the world offers the diversity of Egypt. The country unquestionably belongs to a social and cultural ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

and the Ptolemaic kingdom which survived in Egypt, which was finally taken over by Rome in 31 B.C. And what was the language and culture of the Hellenistic world? The language and culture of the ...

Fruit baskets -with fruit still inside- that are more than 2,200 years old were found in Heracleion, the ancient underwater city of Egypt.

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The discovery of a 2000-year-old headless statue from the Hellenistic period has prompted Greek police to investigate.

A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...

determining it dates back to the Hellenistic period between 323 B.C. and 31 B.C. This time period is marked by the death of Alexander the Great and the conquest of Egypt by Rome and saw the spread ...

Yvona Trnka-Amrhein (Ph.D. Harvard 2013) studies Greek literature of the Hellenistic and Imperial periods, especially the novel, biography, and history. She is particularly interested in interactions ...