On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

Most of the ceramic fragments date to the Hellenistic (333–63 BCE), Roman ... focused on mapping and surveying for archaeological artifacts within the spring tunnel. Cave pearls, a rare type ...

Libya recovered an ancient statue from the Ptolemaic era that had been displayed in the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, ...

In an ancient tunnel, a collection of "cave pearls" was discovered, with some of them containing Greek artifacts from the Hellenistic era. Cave pearls are a kind of "speleothem," which is a ...

The language and culture of the Hellenistic world was Greek. That became the lingua franca of all of these subject peoples. It was to that world what English is to the modern world in many ways ...

The team systematically documented over 100 miles of cliffs and investigated 900 caves, within which they found thousands of artifacts ... the building dates to the Hellenistic period.