After conquering Egypt, Greek and Macedonian military leaders took power and made Alexandria a center of commerce and ...

among them Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, ultimately came to nothing as a result of her defeat, with Antony, at the hands of Roman forces at the battle of Actium in 31 BCE. Wanting to avoid the ...

Even the Nile has changed course ... sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York The Battle of Actium, depicted in this 19th-century engraving, helped ...

This resulted in the decisive naval Battle of Actium ... After Cleopatra sided with Julius Caesar, a civil war ensued in which Ptolemy drowned in the Nile. She then remarried her brother, Ptolemy XIV, ...

An 18th-century depiction of Caesar meeting Cleopatra, by artist Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images) The battle lines had been ... as Cleopatra and Rex ...

S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, ...

In the dramatic conclusion to Kings and Generals’ animated series on Caesar’s Civil War, we explore the assassination of ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Scientists in France may be hot on the trail of a long-lost canal that the Romans built over two millennia ago while battling ...

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema expressed “happiness” over the collapse of the government of national unity (GNU), saying he had predicted it would not last long after the ...