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Inside The Rise And Fall Of The Library Of Alexandria, The Intellectual Center Of The Ancient World
The origins of the Library of Alexandria are still debated by historians, but it was likely established around 295 B.C.E. during the reign of Ptolemy I — and it was the center of knowledge in the ...
Greek Reporter9d
Cleopatra, The Greek Queen of Ancient Egypt
Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.
Scientific American15y
Cleopatra's Alexandria Treasures
He spent almost two decades working in Egypt in the Bay of Alexandria attempting [to] map the Portus Magnus, the great port of Alexandria ... has found is related to Cleopatra and will be on ...
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Bust That May Depict Famous Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII Unearthed by Archaeologists at Ancient Tomb in Alexandria, Egypt
Those who loved her, such as Julius Caeser and Mark Antony, were captured by her great ... buried in Alexandria, not 25 miles outside the major city she once called her home. Could Cleopatra ...
New York Sun28d
Alexandria Is a City Perpetually Lost and Found
Alexander the Great created ... much of an adventurer and Cleopatra had her own Egyptian dynastic designs that came to grief. Strabo called the city a necropolis, where the illustrious and the less so ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN14d
See the Haunting Stone Face of a Ptolemaic Statue Unearthed Near the Ancient Egyptian City of Alexandria
The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...