Ancient EgyptThe Ptolemaic and Roman Periods

Conquest of Alexander the Great

Detail of the Alexander Mosaic, National Archaeological Museum, Naples

View through the Temple of the Oracle of Amun at Siwa

Kingdoms of the Diadochi after the battle of Ipsus, 301

The Rosetta Stone, establishing the divine cult of Ptolemy V (196), 76 cm wide; British Museum.

Cleopatra VII and Caesarion; relief from the Dendera Temple

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra, directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz, 1963.

Ostracon from recording a census, Elephantine, ca 45 CE; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 52, 325 CE: Report by Aurelius, Didymus and Silvanus, public physicians, to Flavius Leucadius, logistes, stating that they had visited the daughter of Aurelius Dioscorus and found her suffering from wounds caused by his house falling down.

The Nomes of Egypt

Nilometer on Elephantine

One of the 24 images of the Pharos of Alexandria from Ostia and Portus: mosaic in statio 46 on the Square of the Corporations, Ostia

Mons Porphyrites, map and view of the Wadi Abu Ma'amel

Portrait of the Tetrarchs in

Venice

General view of Dendera Temple complex (Ptolomaic-Roman)

Dendera, Roman Birth House: Emperor Trajan offers a boat to Isis suckling the infant Horus and an image of the Rising Sun to Hathor and Horus.

Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai (ca 560)

Palaeolithic 700,000-7000 BCE

Saharan Neolithic 8800-4700Early 8800-6800Middle 6600-5100Late 5100-4700

Predynastic 5300-3000 Lower Egypt

Neolithic 5300-4000Maadi 4000-3200

Upper EgyptBadarian 4400-4000Naqada I 4000-3500 (Amratian)Naqada II 3500-3200 (Gerzean)Naqada III 3200-3000 (Dynasty 0)

1ST Persian Period (27th-30th) 525-4042d Persian Period 343-332Ptolemaic Period 332-30

Macedonian332-310Ptolemaic 305-30

Roman 30 BCE-642 CE