What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

He claims that while under guard in her tomb, tending to the body of Antony following the surrender of Egyptian forces to the Roman general Octavian, Cleopatra chose to end her life rather than be ...

Born in 30 BC to a wealthy Jewish family in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, he was an important spokesman for Jews throughout the Roman Empire. Under the Emperor Augustus, Jews in Rome were ...

The map below shows the location of Alexandria and Rome. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

The ancient Greek city of Antioch in Syria ... The only two Roman Empire cities larger than Antioch were Rome and Alexandria.

The vibrant blue pigment became a highly sought-after item among ancient ... in Rome. Vitruvius described the preparation of Egyptian blue in De Architectura (Book VII, XI): "It was in Alexandria ...

Visiting foreign places was another of the things people in ancient Greece and Rome most enjoyed doing ... from Puteoli to the great Egyptian city Alexandria. The trip took anywhere from one ...