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- Photo For Today - More From The Walters Art Museum
WM-EG027 (Left) Head of King Amasis (Right) Head of Ptolemy II Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks (Left) Head of King Amasis Date (Period): ca. 560 BC (Late Period) Medium: red quartzite Measurements: 12 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 9 1/4 in. (31.5 x 20 x 23.5...
- Egypt Finds Hoard Of 2,000-year-old Bronze Coins
Thanks to everyone who sent links for this story. Boston Globe Archaeologists unearthed 383 bronze coins dating back to King Ptolemy III who ruled Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. and was an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra, the Egyptian antiquities authority...
- Exhibition: To Live Forever At The Columbus Museum Of Art
Ohio.com (Betty O'Neill-Roderick) This review of the exhibition focuses on the mummy of a Graeco-Roman man named Demetrios, of which there is also a photograph on the above page. "To Live Forever," an exhibit of Egyptian treasures from the Brooklyn...
- A Unique Anchor Discovered
Turkish Daily News Professional diver Tevfik Camgöz discovers an ancient stone anchor bearing hieroglyphic inscriptions off the shores of Kyrenia, a major port city in northern Cyprus. The anchor was sent to the British Museum, where it was discovered...
- Ptolemy's Alexandrian Postscript
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200606/http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200606/ptolemy.s.alexandrian.postscript.htm"In the first years following Alexander’s death, Ptolemy (like the other so-called Successors) continued to mint the traditional...
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More re investigations into Ptolemaic sea combat off Cyprus
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According to the ancient Greek historian, Diodorus of Sicily, in 306 BC Demetrios the Poliorketes (Besieger) triumphed over Ptolemy I of Egypt in a naval engagement off Cyprus, with dozens of vessels sunk as the result of combat.
"It is well known that there was a naval engagement in the region in 306 BC, so there is a potential of finding wrecks, or parts of wrecks, in deeper waters," Flourentzos told Reuters on Thursday.
Ptolemy I, one of the generals of Alexander the Great, lost control of Cyprus for a period of 10 years after his defeat at the hands of Demetrios Poliorketes. Demetrios was son of Antigonus, a Macedonian nobleman who later ruled Asia Minor.
The Cypriot Antiquities Department announced on Thursday that an ancient Roman shipwreck, dated the 1st century AD, had been found in the same area. The extensive wreck, dating from the early Imperial Roman era, carried a mixed cargo of
several amphora, predominantly jars from the southeast Aegean area. Further mapping of the wreck would take place in 2008. Searches for better preserved shipwrecks would extend to the deeper sandy seabed which was suited to remote sensing techniques, the antiquities department said.
- Photo For Today - More From The Walters Art Museum
WM-EG027 (Left) Head of King Amasis (Right) Head of Ptolemy II Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks (Left) Head of King Amasis Date (Period): ca. 560 BC (Late Period) Medium: red quartzite Measurements: 12 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 9 1/4 in. (31.5 x 20 x 23.5...
- Egypt Finds Hoard Of 2,000-year-old Bronze Coins
Thanks to everyone who sent links for this story. Boston Globe Archaeologists unearthed 383 bronze coins dating back to King Ptolemy III who ruled Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. and was an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra, the Egyptian antiquities authority...
- Exhibition: To Live Forever At The Columbus Museum Of Art
Ohio.com (Betty O'Neill-Roderick) This review of the exhibition focuses on the mummy of a Graeco-Roman man named Demetrios, of which there is also a photograph on the above page. "To Live Forever," an exhibit of Egyptian treasures from the Brooklyn...
- A Unique Anchor Discovered
Turkish Daily News Professional diver Tevfik Camgöz discovers an ancient stone anchor bearing hieroglyphic inscriptions off the shores of Kyrenia, a major port city in northern Cyprus. The anchor was sent to the British Museum, where it was discovered...
- Ptolemy's Alexandrian Postscript
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200606/http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200606/ptolemy.s.alexandrian.postscript.htm"In the first years following Alexander’s death, Ptolemy (like the other so-called Successors) continued to mint the traditional...