Three decades after the waters of Alexandria’s bay revealed the first submerged vestiges of the seventh wonder of the world, ...

Cleopatra was not just a famed Greek queen of Ancient Egypt, but she also even created her own secret drinking club.

Excavations in Egypt's Nile Delta have revealed ancient Egyptian multistory "tower" houses, a ceremonial building dedicated ...

Ptolemy I Soter I took Ancient Egypt, founding a dynasty and turning Alexandria into a centre of Greek culture – you’ll get to explore Alexandria in Origins.

For centuries, the location of Alexander the Great’s tomb has remained one of the most baffling and captivating mysteries in ...

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 ...

At this point, Egypt is ruled by the Ptolemaic Kingdom, started by Alexander the Great’s general Ptolemy I Soter.

Ptolemaic Egypt was a Greek polity founded in 305 BCE by the Macedonian General Ptolemy I Soter, and ruled by his dynasty till the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BCE. [3] Egypt came under Roman rule ...

Ptolemy I Soter was a Macedonian general and companion of Alexander the Great who rose to prominence as one of Alexander’s closest allies. Following Alexander’s death in 323 BCE, Ptolemy played a ...

After the death of Ptolemy Soter I in 282 BC, his son Ptolemy II Philadelphus (meaning “sibling-loving”) ascended to the throne. Under his reign, Alexandria reached its golden age, and the library ...

The Ptolemaic Dynasty was founded in Egypt in 305 BCE by Ptolemy Soter, a Macedonian general who served Alexander the Great of Greece during his earlier invasion of Egypt, which liberated the ...