Ptolemy II perhaps achieved this golden age for Alexandria because of his attempts to integrate Greek and Egyptian culture.

Visit “Pompeii’s Pilar”, once thought by Crusaders to mark the burial site of Roman Consul and General Gaius Pompey, but it is actually a remnant of the Serapeum, Alexandria’s acropolis.

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