From the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum

EGYPTIAN ARTIFACTS: Mastererpieces of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum houses one of the most important collections of ancient and Graeco-Roman antiquities in Egypt (Hussein Bassir, Al-Ahram online).

The museum presents the long history of Egypt from ancient times to the Graeco-Roman period, through the Coptic period, to the Islamic period, and finally to the printing press that Napoleon Bonaparte brought to Egypt at the end of the 18th century.

This article presents some of my favourite pieces from the amazing collection of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum from ancient and Graeco-Roman Egypt.

Some past PaleoJudaica posts on Alexander the Great are here here, here, here, here, here, and here. For more on Berenice II see here.

Alexander is mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Daniel, although not by name. He is also important in later Jewish legend.

Berenice II (contrary to the earlier post, now corrected) is not the Berenice alluded to in Daniel 11.

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