1. Ancient Egypt The Ptolemaic and Roman Periods

2. Conquest of Alexander the Great

3. Detail of the Alexander Mosaic, National Archaeological Museum, Naples

4. View through the Temple of the Oracle of Amun at Siwa

6. Kingdoms of the Diadochi after the battle of Ipsus, 301

7. The Rosetta Stone, establishing the divine cult of Ptolemy V (196), 76 cm wide; British Museum.

9. Cleopatra VII and Caesarion; relief from the Dendera Temple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra, directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz, 1963.

11. Ostracon from recording a census, Elephantine, ca 45 CE; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 52, 325 CE: Report by Aurelius, Didymus and Silvanus, public physicians, to Flavius Leucadius, logistes, stating that they had visited the daughter of Aurelius Dioscorus and found her suffering from wounds caused by his house falling down.

12. The Nomes of Egypt

13. Nilometer on Elephantine

14. One of the 24 images of the Pharos of Alexandria from Ostia and Portus: mosaic in statio 46 on the Square of the Corporations, Ostia

15. Mons Porphyrites, map and view of the Wadi Abu Ma'amel Portrait of the Tetrarchs in Venice

17. General view of Dendera Temple complex (Ptolomaic-Roman)

18. Dendera, Roman Birth House: Emperor Trajan offers a boat to Isis suckling the infant Horus and an image of the Rising Sun to Hathor and Horus.

19. Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai (ca 560)

20. Palaeolithic700,000-7000 BCE Saharan Neolithic8800-4700 Early8800-6800 Middle6600-5100 Late5100-4700 Predynastic5300-3000 Lower Egypt Neolithic5300-4000 Maadi4000-3200 Upper Egypt Badarian4400-4000 Naqada I4000-3500 (Amratian) Naqada II3500-3200 (Gerzean) Naqada III3200-3000 (Dynasty 0) 1 ST Persian Period (27 th -30 th )525-404 2d Persian Period343-332 Ptolemaic Period332-30 Macedonian332-310 Ptolemaic305-30 Roman30 BCE-642 CE