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 Philadelphos built many temples to show his respect for the religion, including a Temple of Isis at Philae along with a small Imhotep Temple and a great pylon for the Temple of Isis.

Berenice II was murdered in the power struggles that took place after the death of her husband Ptolemy III in 221 BCE. Berenice II and Ptolemy III were deified during their lives under the royal ...

Ptolemy II Philadelphos (308-246 BCE), the son of Ptolemy I and Berenike I, was made co-ruler with his father in 285 BCE and became sole ruler at his father's death in 283 or 282 BCE Although known ...

Ptolemy II Philadelphos (Brother-lover) succeeded his father, Ptolemy I, and after their deaths deified his father and his mother, Berenike I. In depicting himself and his sister-queen, Arsinoe, on ...

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.

What survives of Ptolemy’s famed pharos now lies at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1968, a UNESCO expedition identified the ruins of the lighthouse in the ancient port of Alexandria.