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It was here the greatest worship of Nile crocodiles took place, in a city founded by Menes of the First Dynasty, but officially named Crocodopolis in the third century BC by Ptolemy II.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part III Richard Bangs 2011
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With all saurian ceremony, Menes was sculled over to found a city in about 3000 BC that would worship crocodiles, a city that under Ptolemy II was christened Crocodopolis.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile Richard Bangs 2011
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It was here the greatest worship of Nile crocodiles took place, in a city founded by Menes of the First Dynasty, but officially named Crocodopolis in the third century BC by Ptolemy II.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part III Richard Bangs 2011
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With all saurian ceremony, Menes was sculled over to found a city in about 3000 BC that would worship crocodiles, a city that under Ptolemy II was christened Crocodopolis.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile Richard Bangs 2011
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The coin is 2,200 years old and was minted in Alexandria, Egypt in 191 BCE by Ptolemy V and bears the name of the wife of Ptolemy II, Arsinoe.
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The harmonious figure of a woman draped in clinging robes is believed to be Queen Arsinoe II, sister and wife of Ptolemy II.
Egyptian Treasures: Between the Deity and Deep Blue Sea 2009
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Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and probably finished by Ptolemy II.
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In the First War of Succession (280279) and First Syrian War (274271), he lost Miletus, Phoenicia, Cilicia, Pamphylia, and Lycia to Ptolemy II.
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As a result Berenice II, daughter of Ptolemy II, whom Antiochus had married in 253, provoked the Syrian War in favor of her infant son.
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Ptolemy II of Egypt stirred up Athens and Sparta to wage the Chremonidean War (from Chremonides, an Athenian leader) against Antigonus.
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