The Arrival of the Ptolemies and the Rise of Greek in Egypt

The Arrival of the Ptolemies and the Rise of Greek in Egypt

In 332 BC, Alexander the Great marched his armies into Egypt and ushered in a new era of Greek-speaking pharaohs. While the indigenous Egyptian language, religion, and culture were maintained and respected, multilingualism began to characterize important communications that needed to reach the broadest possible audience in Ptolemaic Egypt. Return The Stone – The Official Podcast of the #ReturnTheStone [https://soundcloud.com/tags/ReturnTheStone] Campaign and ReturnTheStone.org. Hosted by John Navarre.

Hieroglyphs and the Ancient Egyptian Language

More than 5,000 years ago along the Nile Valley in Egypt, a rudimentary system of pictorial symbols began its evolution into a complex divine language that would come to define one of the world’s greatest civilizations before eventually being lost to history for over 15 centuries. Return The Stone – The Official Podcast of the #ReturnTheStone [https://soundcloud.com/tags/ReturnTheStone] Campaign and ReturnTheStone.org. Hosted by John Navarre.