A tunnel described as a 'geometric miracle' has been discovered underneath a temple in an Egyptian city by archaeologists and ...

Ptolemy II was actually the youngest of I’s 11 kids (his third wife, Berenice, co-ruled with her husband, so only her three children were seen as legitimate heirs, and the elder two were girls).

Ptolemy II was also the wealthiest king of the world. Another Greek writer, Athenaios, who lived in the second century, quotes a book on Alexandria written by Kallixeimos of Rhodes.

Cleopatra may not have been ancient Egypt's only female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty -- Queen Arsinoë II, a woman who competed in and won Olympic events, came first, some 200 years earlier ...

They suggest that Queen Arsinoë II (316-270 B.C.) was the first female pharaoh belonging to Ptolemy's family — the dynasty that ruled Egypt for some 300 years until the Roman conquest of 30 B.C.