Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

The Ptolemaic dynasty was Egypt's last before it became part of the Roman Empire. The dynasty was founded ... in 332 B.C. and one of his generals, Ptolemy, became Ptolemy I. Leadership was handed ...

A cache of 337 coins bearing Cleopatra VII’s image sheds new light on the age of the Temple of Taposiris Magna—and the ...

Ptolemy III Euergetes (Benefactor) carried on successful military campaigns (see 91.100) that brought new wealth into Egypt, resulting in the minting of octodrachms and other gold denominations and a ...

Child: Oh dear. Abdul: When Alexander of Macedon expanded his empire he conquered Egypt, and made himself pharaoh! After he died, the descendants of his general, Ptolemy ruled for nearly 300 years!

Ptolemy I, king of Egypt and an ally of Seleucus ... For several decades the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, two of the largest powers of the Hellenistic world, vied for ...

Cleopatra followed, bringing along her young son Ptolemy XV Caesar ... ruler of the Roman Empire, an empire which finally included the great kingdom of Egypt.