The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

Alongside his Geography, Ptolemy’s maps and geographical descriptions were used by many other cartographers and navigators, helping redefine and reshape the perception of the known world.

In 1407, "Geographia" translated his Greek works into Latin and reproduced Ptolemy's World Map. Moroccan geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi's created this world map in 1154. It appeared in a collection ...

The Behaim Globe depicted a narrowed Atlantic Ocean, which, if crossed, would lead directly to Cipango (Japan) and Asia. In ...

In the 1200s, a Chinese official described Alexandria and its lighthouse in remarkable detail given the vast distance.

Alexandria is a city in northern Egypt on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the second largest city in Egypt and is ...

One of the earliest, and most impactful, thinkers on exploration was Ptolemy, in the 2nd century ... meant that people were able to make world maps, depicting all land known.

Artifacts found at the tombs include bronze coins with the image of Alexander the Great dating to the Time of Ptolemy I, children’s toys made ... Tuesday's remarks are his latest suggestion to redraw ...

East Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) announced during India’s G20 leaders’ summit in September 2023 aims at security and ease ...