Now researchers have managed to recover the text written by Ptolemy on a parchment that suffered such a previous recovery attempt. Outermost six rings of the meteoroscope, not to scale.

Famed for her intelligence, charisma and political skills, Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt with her brother Ptolemy XIII. She defeated Ptolemy with the help of Julius Caesar and became Caesar's mistress.

He was part of a delegation to negotiate a treaty of friendship with the Pharaoh Ptolemy XII. An angry mob chased and hanged the man from a tree – and not even the Pharaoh, who valued his ...

Famed for her intelligence, charisma and political skills, Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt with her brother Ptolemy XIII. She defeated Ptolemy with the help of Julius Caesar and became Caesar's mistress.