Egypt II - first century J. C.: Since Alexanders kitchen, Palestine was incorporated into Egypt - which is the permanent theater of war between Ptolemies and Seleucids -. But the Jewish peasant support increasingly ill the weight of the war. And it is relief when in 200 BC, the country passed to the Seleucids. Then from 181 BC, with the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor, Egypt continues to decline: infighting for the throne, currency crisis, unrest in the country, etc. In 145 BC, Ptolemy VII Euergetes, nicknamed Malignant by his subjects, succeeds Ptolemy VI and reign over a weakened Egypt, where the administration and the economy Lagides decompose. And his death in 117 BC opens a new political crisis. The kingdom dismantled. The natural son of the deceased, Ptolemy Apion, rules Cyrene, the widow, Cleopatra reigned over Egypt proper but his two son Soter II Lathyrus and Alexander I to tear his estate. Philo the Jew born in Alexandria in 67 BC After long study at the prestigious Library of Alexandria, he became a prominent philosopher. It is renowned for some of the Secrets from the Kabbalah. And soon, people see it as a great magician / astrologer. Yet a rumor that uses a Crystal Magic to carry out his experiments Occult. She also said that Crystal is actually a kind of supernatural polyphrède properties; an object allowing it to manipulate the code helping to write his books. In 51 BC, when Ptolemy XII died Autèle king of Egypt protected by Rome, his eldest son and daughter are appointed to succeed him. In accordance with Egyptian tradition, Ptolemy XIII, aged ten to marry his sister, Cleopatra VII, who is seventeen; and both are associated with power. Unfortunately, the situation in the country is dire - the Nile floods and famine are inadequate threat for several years - and the young woman faces the intrigues of the eunuchs and ministers of his brother. Because they take advantage of the civil war in Rome to play their own game and the hunt of Alexandria. They also mistakenly murdered Pompey, and as a pledge of their good will, do bring his head to Caesar, who arrived in Egypt three days after his enemy, and is punish his killers. For starters, Caesar appropriates thousands of locked in his fabulous Library treaties: he shall lay in a shed near the docks of the city. He makes boarding a ship bound for Rome. He gave the order to burn down the library and 700,000 volumes of which he has not taken it. Learning this, Cleopatra is quick to counter it by making some lock - whose texts Thoth and a number of extremely rare manuscripts Hindus - inside secret underground vaults. She entrusted the care of the Magi desperate to defend their literary heritage. But, ultimately, the library is burned with three quarters of his valuable works. It is rolled up in a carpet as the beautiful Cleopatra manages to force the palace guard and to appear before Caesar. The conqueror bald thirty-three years older than her. He was immediately seduced and restored all his rights, to the detriment of his brother, who fled and was killed in the fighting. The journey are Caesar and Cleopatra in the Nile Valley, disorders of Alexandria, persuade Caesar he has an interest in maintaining a semblance of independence the kingdom Ptolemy. He brings to Rome the queen of Egypt, with her new husband Ptolemy XIV brother, who was eleven years old. After the death of Caesar, Cleopatra escaped from Rome with his son, Caesarion, Caesar has forgotten in his will. Back in Egypt, Ptolemy XIV murdered Cleopatra and Ptolemy XV reign associated with Caesarion, aged three. Egypt is now an independent state, that Rome can not consider reducing the province. In 41 BC, Antony - true force of nature, once the first lieutenant of Caesar - receives the East; but the agreement between Octavian - the master of Occident- and it does not last because of the ambition of everyone. Anthony, who had Cleopatra in Rome in Caesars time, immediately displays his sympathy for the Ptolemaic queen. In this couple that hits the headlines, romantic relationships do so way inferior to the political goals that the two partners and allies continue; Cleopatra intends to use her lover, to whom she gives two children, to restore his kingdom with the help of Rome, without alienating its independence. Antoine account riches of Egypt to go to the highest functions, definitely spread his dangerous rival and embrace all the Roman provinces; is being installed in Alexandria, Cleopatra whose dream of the real capital of the Greco-Roman world, he is seduced by the mode of oriental life, surrounded by a courtyard and a worthy luxury Asian satraps, but not without lead a constructive and peacekeeping work. Indeed, Antoine rebuilt the fabulous Library of Alexandria. It offers a collection of 200,000 books to Cleopatra, to be forgiven of the fire at the old library by Caesar. Cleopatra then distributes the new catalog: she sends some Pergamum, another Antioch, a third in Pella, and the last in Alexandria. But at the same time, rumors began to spread about the Egyptian queen, according to them, it should her charms to initiatory rites would perpetuate in the ruins of some Ancient monuments. In fact, the Eastern policy of Antoine and his relationship with Cleopatra, whom he promised marriage and the restoration of power Lagide, shock Roman opinion, a situation which Octave skilfully leverage the civil war broke out in 32 BC, and the fight ensues between Antony and Octavian for dominance; naval battle of Actium in 31 before our era, and the defeat of Antony, terminate its oriental dream. He flees and commits suicide. Cleopatra, thirty-seven, with no illusions about the influence it can have on the winner, there is no case of Octave insurance. She actually dreads more than anything to be on his triumph. She also chooses to commit suicide by the bite of an asp, the uraeus serpent adorning always pschent Pharaohs. Cleopatra disappeared, Octave Ptolemy XV murdered her husband. Helios and Selene appear in his triumph. The Ptolemy dynasty goes out. Became a Roman province, Egypt, the breadbasket of the empire, however, continues to develop a brilliant and original Civilization. Around 25 BC, the Romans accept the Priests of Neith Hermopolis erect a necropolis in the vicinity of the city. They are therefore raising a magnificent building, coupled with a sanctuary that aims to be very busy. They organize meetings cosmopolitan, maintain constant relations with Alexandria and throughout the Mediterranean basin. They welcome among them beliefs, forms of worship, and the most diverse customs. They are interested in the most official doctrine of the priesthood of Thoth. But they are also looking at the Magical beliefs related to indigenous deities and to ascetic practices anarchists Hebrews Zealots. On the other hand, Alexandria, they are allowed to excavate the catacombs of El Ouadian, as well as Kem el Ghougafa; City of the Dead. Then they develop a funerary complex carved beneath a vast rocky shelf under the Street of Tombs. They dig cemeteries of four floors. They cover the walls of these frescoes representing Agathodaimons; good Genii supposed to protect the site. And finally, they settled around the statues of the god Jackal Ophois - Seth Greeks - and headstones.
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