A portrait of Ptolemy II (from a coin of the time) .Ptolemy II Philadelphus was the king (pharaoh) of Egypt from 283 to 246 BCE. and was the son of Ptolemy I Soter,a Macedonian Greek general and the Macedonian Greek queen Berenice I,

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Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
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