What was happening in Egypt right before the Romans invaded?

Julius Caesar invaded Egypt in 47 BC with just one Roman legion, as part of the ongoing civil war he had been waging against his arch-rival, Pompey. Pompey had fled to Egypt, but no sooner had he arrived when he was murdered by an Egyptian faction... read more

Before the Romans invaded Egypt she was ruled by the Ptolemaic dynasty. This was a hellenistic (Greek) dynasty and decendants of Ptolemaic one of the legendary generals of Alexander the Great who conquered Egypt over the Persians. read more

The Roman province of Egypt (Latin: Aegyptus, pronounced [ae̯ˈɡʏptʊs]; Greek: Αἴγυπτος Aigyptos [ɛ́ːɡyptos]) was established in 30 BC after Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) defeated his rival Mark Antony, deposed Queen Cleopatra VII, and annexed the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt to the Roman Empire. read more

The Greeks in Egypt: 332-30 BC: Alexander the Great arrives in Egypt at an early stage of his great journey of conquest. He clears out the Persian administration before moving against Persia herself. After Alexander's death, in 323, his empire is divided among his generals. read more