When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

This “Last Dynasty,” as the Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson ... but is called Ptolemaic after its founder, Ptolemy I, and the Ptolemies who descended from him, right down to Ptolemy XV (also ...

(Over a period of some 300 years, every royal male in Egypt was named Ptolemy.) Yet ... the royal women of the Ptolemaic dynasty found themselves in an adopted land where active queenship was ...

Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander the Great's generals who, around a hundred years earlier, had taken over Egypt following Alexander's death.

Following Ptolemy V’s untimely ... Macedon was retained by Antigonus I, the founder of the Antigonid dynasty; to the east, Syria, the Levant and Mesopotamia were governed by Seleucus I and ...

Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander the Great's generals who, around a hundred years earlier, had taken over Egypt following Alexander's death.