Ptolemaic Egypt

The Tower of Abusir (Egypt)
The Tower of Abusir is said to be a scale model of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria, built about the same time as its famous predecessor, but still standing today a few miles inland from Alexandria.

Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is a large slab of volcanic basalt carved during the Ptolemaic period in three different languages, found near the town of Rosetta, Egypt in 1799, by the Napoleon's expedition, and used by archaeologists to crack the ancient hieroglyphics of Egypt.

The Library of Alexandria (Egypt)
The Library of Alexandria was part document collection and part university, and it was a dream of Alexander the Great's and built in his capital city on the Nile Delta of Egypt after his death.

Taposiris Magna (Egypt)
Taposiris Magna is the name of an important Ptolemaic period port located in northern Egypt near Alexandria.

Alexandria (Egypt)
Alexandria was the capital of Egypt, conceived and built for the conqueror Alexander the Great, and the home of Cleopatra and her famous lover Marc Anthony.

Ptolemies
The Ptolemies were members of the final dynasty of Egyptian pharaohs, members of a Greek family based in Alexandria.

Ptolemy [87-150 AD]
Roman scholar Claudius Ptolemaeus (known as Ptolemy) was an astronomer, mathematician and geographer at the Library of Alexandria.