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Ptolemies also enticed Jewish people from Palestine to settle in northern Egypt, making Alexandria one of the most cosmopolitan cities in all antiquity.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

They also warred with one another, however, with the Ptolemies and the Seleucids emerging as particularly bitter rivals, frequently fighting over the territories that divided their empires.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

It was from the Ptolemies that the tube-blown glassmaking techniques we see today derive.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2019

But few would disagree that the Europe of Charlemagne was more backward in its mindset, at least at the elite level, than the Rome of Augustus or the Alexandria of the Ptolemies.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2011

Alas, Egyptian mines were tapped out; the Ptolemies were therefore constantly on the make for gold and silver to pay their soldiers.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro