Hawass on the world of Cleopatra

AHRAM ONLINE is publishing a four-part series on the world of Cleopatra by Zahi Hawass, whom we haven't heard from in a while. The first in the series is out:

The world of Cleopatra — I.

This essay gives an overview of Egypt under Persian rule, the conquest of Alexander the Great, the rise of Ptolemy I, and politics and culture during the Ptolemaic period.

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