Ptolemaic Kingdom

Hellenistic kingdom in ancient Egypt (305–30 BCE)

Coele-Syria () was a region of Syria in classical antiquity. The term originally referred to the "hollow" Beqaa Valley between the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon mountain ranges, but sometimes it was applied to a broader area of the region of Syria. The area is now part of modern-day Syria and Lebanon.

Banias (; ; Judeo-Aramaic, Medieval Hebrew: , etc.; ), also spelled Banyas, is a site in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Syria near a natural spring, once associated with the Greek god Pan. It had been inhabited for 2,000 years, until its Syrian population fled and their homes were destroyed by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. It is located at the foot of Mount Hermon, north of the Golan Heights, the classical Gaulanitis, in the part occupied by Israel. The spring is the source of the Banias River, one of the main tributaries of the Jordan River. Archaeologists uncovered a shrine ded

hieroglyphic inscription on Sehel Island in Egypt

thumb|upright=1.4|Syracusia as imagined in 1671. Syracusia (, syrakousía, literally "of Syracuse") was an ancient Greek ship sometimes claimed to be the largest transport ship of antiquity. She was reportedly too big for any port in Sicily, and thus only sailed once from Syracuse in Sicily to Alexandria in the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, whereupon she was given as a present to Ptolemy III Euergetes. The exact dimension of Syracusia is unknown; Historian Michael Lahanas put it at long, 14 m wide, and 13 m high.

body of papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, containing magical spells, formulae, hymns, and rituals, dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE

hypothetical place where Alexander III of Macedon was buried

ancient Egyptian artifact of carved sandstone, now in the Louvre

late Hellenistic floor mosaic depicting the Nile in its passage from the Blue Nile to the Mediterranean

Roman nude marble sculpture at Capitoline Museums

thumb|Map of the Lower Nile valley; the Triakontaschoinos is the area between the first cataract (1) and the second (2). Note that Lake Nasser did not exist until the construction of the [[Aswan Dam in the 1960s–1970s.]] The Triakontaschoinos (, "Land of the Thirty Schoinoi"), Latinized as Triacontaschoenus, was a geographical and administrative term used in the Greco-Roman world for the part of Lower Nubia between the First and Second Cataracts of the Nile, which formed a buffer zone between Egypt and later Rome on the one hand and Meroë on the other hand. The northern part of this area, stre

Coinage of Hellenistic Egypt

An aretalogy (), from ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) + -logy,or aretology (from ancient Greek aretê, "excellence, virtue") in the strictest sense is a narrative about a divine figure's miraculous deeds where a deity's attributes are listed, in the form of poem or text, in the first person. The equivalent term in Sanskrit is ātmastuti. There is no evidence that these narratives constituted a clearly defined genre but there exists a body of literature that contained praise for divine miracles. These literary works were usually associated with eastern cults.

ancient Egyptian Statue Head

Imperial cult in Hellenistic ancient Egypt

Hellenistic engraved gem

Late hellenistic or roman onyx cameo cup

ancient Egyptian sculpture in Toronto

Kolanthes or Kolanthes the Child (, ) is a child deity from the late period of ancient Egyptian religion. He has been documented since the second century BC in the circle of the deities of Akhmim (Koine Panopolis) in the ninth Upper Egyptian Nome (Egypt).