Ptolemies

What archaeologists have unearthed about the uprising of the Egyptians against the power of the Ptolemies

(ORDO NEWS) — At the end of the 3rd – beginning of the 2nd century BC, the Egyptians rebelled against the Greek-Macedonian rulers of the country. The resistance, which lasted about 20 years, was firmly entrenched in historiography with the name “Great Uprising”. But the information that has come down to us from a number of written sources – including, by the way, the famous Rosetta Stone – is fragmentary…