"When Egypt was reached in 332 BC, the Persian satray surrendered without striking a blow. Alexaxnder hastened upstream to Memphis, sacrificed to the Apis bull, was accepted as pharaoh, and then returned to the coast. Here on the shore of the Mediterranean near a village named Rhacotis he traced out the lines of the future great city of Alexandria before starting out on his famous visit to the oracle of Amun in the oasis of Siwa." - Gardiner, 1961.

 

 

 

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