A Quran, a Bible and a Microsoft manual were among the first books put on the shelves of a new library built not far from where Egyptian ruler Ptolemy I Soter's renowned original stood in ...

When the Visigoths burned Library Of Alexandria you can bet that old Ptolemy I Soter would have loved to have had a Czur (pronounced “Cesar”) scanner in his palatial marble-clad staterooms ...

The great Library of Alexandria was founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC by Ptolemy I Soter. At its peak it housed an impressive 900,000 manuscripts. It was not only a storehouse of books, ...

Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the British Museum Vol. 1:A Theban Archive of the Reign of Ptolemy I, Soter. By Prof. S. R. K. Glanville. Pp. lii + 73 + 13 plates ...

Ancient Alexandria was founded in Egypt by Alexander the Great. Alexander's successor, Ptolemy I Soter, founded the library, which is believed to have also been referred to as the museum.

A militarily active king like his grandfather Ptolemy I, Ptolemy III expanded the Ptolemaic kingdom to include parts of Syria, Libya, and northern Nubia.

In particular, the Ptolemaic Kingdom, a dynasty founded after the death of Alexander the Great by his general Ptolemy I Soter, which began in 305 B.C. and continued until Rome’s conquest of ...