2026-05-27
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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler.
Today I'm chatting with Toby Wilkinson, who is one of the world's leading Egyptologists.
I'm quite intrigued by his latest book.
It is called The Last Dynasty, Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra,
and he is also a fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.
Toby, welcome.
Thank you very much for having me on the show.
So Ptolemaic Egypt, you know, it lasts around 300 years.
When exactly does it start and end?
And where was it?
Just to give our listeners an introduction.
Sure.
So we're talking here about Egypt, the Valley of the River Nile, in the northeastern corner of the continent of Africa,
but always really a crossroads between Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
And the time period we're talking about starts in 332 BC with Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt.
And it ends in 30 BC, so 300 years later,
with the death of the famous Cleopatra and Egypt's absorption into the Roman Empire.
And Alexander is able to take over Egypt because Persian incursions had weakened it?
Or how did that happen?