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The Day's Tweets

[Aug. 26th, 2009|12:03 am]

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12:32 @gostowl I really need to study up on the Alexander period, I had no idea about the Ptolemaic dynasty being founded by a Greek. interesting #
12:34 @gostowl I know it was intermixed thru history, it was their shock at any trace of Nubian looks, but makes sense now w/ the Greek heritage #
12:35 @gostowl Also makes sense now about why their ppl kept following the religion when they were conquered by a foreign power #
18:22 @gostowl What I've found Ptolemy I and his directs were all of Macedonian blood. Followed by inbreeding across seve
ral half-blood lines tho #
18:28 The South has nothing on the Ptolemies: www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/genealogy.htm #
20:39 @gostowl A lot of the later coinage (esp outside Egypt) was meant to be unflattering for them. They were said to be morbidly obese and weak #

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