An interdisciplinary team led by anthropologist Gerhard Weber from the University of Vienna, together with experts from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, has concluded, after analyzing a skull discovered in 1929 in the ruins of the Octagon Tomb of Ephesus in Turkey, that the remains belong to a boy aged between 11 and 14 with […]
Cleopatra
Statue Possibly Representing Cleopatra VII and Numerous Coins Featuring Her Effigy Found at the Temple of Taposiris Magna, West of Alexandria
The Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission, led by Dr. Kathleen Martínez in collaboration with the National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), has made new discoveries at the Temple of Taposiris Magna, located west of Alexandria. Among the most notable findings are foundation deposits beneath the southern wall of the enclosure, containing artifacts and ceremonial objects that shed […]
The Story of Caesarion, the Unfortunate Son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra
It was the year 30 B.C. when Octavian’s victory at the Battle of Actium ended the Third Civil War, turning Egypt into a mere Roman province. With this new political-administrative status, the dignity of the Egyptian pharaoh disappeared and was replaced by that of a proconsul. The last one, who reigned alongside his mother Cleopatra […]
Caesar, besieged with Cleopatra in Alexandria, Ordered his Ships to be Burned to Prevent Retreat
If we talk about the sieges that Julius Caesar experienced, the one at Alesia immediately comes to mind, where he defeated the Gallic leader Vercingetorix after a month and a half of fighting and after being besieged himself when an enemy army unexpectedly appeared from the rear. He would go through this experience again five […]