Ptolemy, one of the seven somatophy lakes (bodyguards) who served as Alexander the Great’s generals and deputies, was appointed satrap of Egypt after Alexander’s death in 323 BC.

In 305 BC, he declared himself Ptolemy I, later known as Sōter “Saviour”.

The Egyptians soon accepted the Ptolemies as the successors to the pharaohs of independent Egypt.

Ptolemy’s family ruled Egypt until the Roman conquest of 30 BC.

All the male rulers of the dynasty took the name, Ptolemy.

Ptolemaic queens regnant, some of whom were married to their brothers, were usually called Cleopatra, Arsinoe or Berenice.

The most famous member of the line was the last queen, Cleopatra VII, known for her role in the Roman political battles between Julius Caesar and Pompey, and later between Octavian and Mark Antony.

Her apparent suicide at the conquest by Rome marked the end of the Ptolemaic rule in Egypt.

City of Alexandria in Egypt:

Alexandria is believed to have been founded by Alexander the Great in April 331 BC as Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Alexandreia). Alexander’s chief architect for the project was Dinocrates.

Alexandria was intended to supersede Naucratis as a Hellenistic center in Egypt and to be the link between Greece and the rich Nile valley.

In the area where Alexander had built his base in Egypt, from there he went as far as doing an interracial mixing of the Greeks with the black Egyptians, with the aim of partaking of the Great spiritual and natural genetic traits of the black people of Egypt.