Hellenistic Egypt News Today

This is a guest post by Jason Baden, regional vice-president for multicloud application services and security company, F5 A shadow of doubt has been cast over the preparedness of Australian ...

The discovery of the Berenike Buddha should lead to new research about the deep influence of faiths from India in the Graeco-Roman world too, instead of only in regions in eastern Asia

This week on the blog we're going to talk about Cleopatra or to be more specific, we're going to talk about Cleopatra VII Philopator, who is the only Cleopatra you've likely ever heard of, but that 'seven' after he name should signal that she's not the only Cleopatra. One of the trends in scholarship over…

The association between "bloody Herod" and his contemporary, "blind Hillel," is disputed in almost all the literature dedicated to the greatest king of Judea and the "wisest leader of the Sanhedrin," but it will become evident in what follows

Archeologists in the occupied West Bank have uncovered a stash of 2,200-year-old Tetradrachma coins from the Ptolemaic era in Egypt. The coins provide historical insight into the Maccabean revolt.

When a girl presented her teacher what became known as the Curmsun Disc, little did she know it held clues to understanding the reign of the Viking king Harald Bluetooth.

The Emerald Tablet is an esoteric text said to hold the secrets of the universe. It’s no surprise it’s also surrounded by mystery.

Life in Hellenistic Egypt Hellenistic Egypt was very different from the Egypt of the earlier times. The pharaoh still ruled in Egypt, though he spoke in Greek. It was still a highly bureaucratized society, although the Greeks were in charge. So, how do we know so much about Hellenistic Egypt? Alexandria was an important city in Hellenistic Egypt and it was still an important city in Byzantine times and remained so until the Arab conquest in the 7 th century A.D. (Image: Luigi Mayer/Public dom...