The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a Greek engineering marvel that guided ships ...

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was born in either 70 or 69 BC (it is not known when exactly) and ruled as Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC. She is a descendant of Macedonian ...

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 antiquity.

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 is ...

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He was disinherited from the Egyptian throne, organized an expedition to overthrow his brother-in-law in Thrace, murdered the ally who helped him, married his own stepsister, killed her children, ...

Much like his former commander Alexander III (the Great) showed connections to Herakles and Zeus, Ptolemy I Soter (the Savior) used coins to validate his succession to power. Thus, in place of ...

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 ...