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Title: Egypt finds hoard of 2,000-year-old bronze coins Post by: Allhallowsday on April 22, 2010, 10:56:02 AM Egypt finds hoard of 2,000-year-old bronze coins
CAIRO – Archaeologists unearthed 383 bronze coins dating back to King Ptolemy III who ruled Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. and was an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra, the Egyptian antiquities authority announced Thursday. The statement said one side of the coins were inscribed with hybrid Greek-Egyptian god Amun-Zeus, while the other side showed an eagle and the words Ptolemy and king in Greek. Founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals, the Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled Egypt for some 300 years, fusing Greek and ancient Egyptian cultures... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_antiquities (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_antiquities) |