THE earliest treatises on chemistry were com-posed in Hellenistic Egypt (Alexandria) during the first centuries of the Christian era. Their language was Greek (κινή), and their con-tinuations ...

and the Ptolemaic kingdom which survived in Egypt, which was finally taken over by Rome in 31 B.C. And what was the language and culture of the Hellenistic world? The language and culture of the ...

Berenike's marriage to her cousin was politically significant, since it had brought Kyrene, which had been lost by Ptolemy II, back under Egyptian control. Upon the death of her husband, she became ...

Petra's architecture had been under the strong Greco-Roman influence, but other styles were also seen, originating from ...

During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the leading states of the 3rd ...

Fruit baskets -with fruit still inside- that are more than 2,200 years old were found in Heracleion, the ancient underwater city of Egypt.