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 ...

during the Hellenistic rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty. It was looted from the ancient city of Tolemaïs (Ptolemaida) during World War II, a period when many Libyan antiquities were vulnerable to ...

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 ...