Hellenistic Egypt was a society created by Macedonian rule of the ancient civilisation of Egypt. It is framed by Alexander the Great at one end and Cleopatra VII at the other. This book sums up a ...

This chapter is part of a book that is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core Two themes of research which seem to me important for any structural analysis of the population in Ptolemaic ...

Hellenistic Egypt was the setting for perhaps the first Jewish Golden Age, a time "golden" in Jewish memory as an era of vibrant cultural interaction between the Jews and their gentile hosts. This is ...

Ancient Greek kingdoms existed in China, and there was a significant spread of Hellenism in Asia, including in Japan and ...

Hellenistic Egypt was the setting for perhaps the first Jewish Golden Age, a time "golden" in Jewish memory as an era of vibrant cultural interaction between the Jews and their gentile hosts. This is ...

and the Ptolemaic kingdom which survived in Egypt, which was finally taken over by Rome in 31 B.C. And what was the language and culture of the Hellenistic world? The language and culture of the ...

“I was overwhelmed with the level of preservation and the miracle of survival of a nearly intact Hellenistic Egyptian city in the Nile Delta,” says project codirector Jay Silverstein.

The temple, which measures around 450 feet in length and roughly 250 feet wide is perhaps the best-preserved in Egypt.

The antiquities ministry insisted that Cleopatra had "Hellenistic (Greek) features", including "light skin". The exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) - entitled Kemet.

This was Cleopatra, the last Hellenistic queen of Egypt, come to indulge in her daily ritual of bathing on the enchanting ...

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1479-1458), on the left. One of Cleopatra’s Needles, a 224-ton Egyptian obelisk enveloped in hieroglyphs, stands today for all to admire—not in Cairo but in London. The ancient Egyptians left ...