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Alexander’s Legacy: The Ptolemaic Era of Greek Rule in Egypt
When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...
Ancient Ptolemaic statue returns to Libya after decades
L ibya recovered an ancient statue from the Ptolemaic era that had been displayed in the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, ...
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Cleveland Museum of Art agrees to transfer ownership of ancient 'Statue of a Man' to Libya
As 3News media partner Cleveland.com previously reported, the 2,200-year-old Ptolemaic Dynasty-era statue of a man was believed to have been looted during World War II from a museum now located in ...
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The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
Egypt goes from glory to disaster in this lively history of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Egyptologist Wilkinson (Ramesses the Great) begins with Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332 BCE and ...
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This Ancient Pyramid Found in the Judean Desert May Have Been a Ptolemaic Tax Collector’s Station
After that, the wider region was ruled by two Macedonian empires: Egypt’s Ptolemaic kingdom, a dynasty founded by Ptolemy I Soter in 305 B.C.E., and the Seleucid kingdom, founded by Seleucus I ...