The Story of Serapis And the changing of Time.
On the 6 November 333 BC The Macedonian King Alexander the Great defeated Darius III Codomannus , won Phoenicia and Egypt, and destroyed the Persian army. One of his generals, Ptolemy I Soter ,. became ruler of Egypt (323–283 BC), and founder of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and dynasty . In 305/4 BC, he demanded the title of pharaoh . His grandson PtolemyIII Euergetes laid siege first to Babylon in 246/245 BC. Translations of the Sumerian cuneiform tablet (BM 34428) show that the Macedonian army contained Carian's hoplite , who had iron weapons and wore armour suits. According to Plutarch , Lucius Mestrius Plutarchusc, (AD 46 – AD 120), a Greek biographer and essayist : "King Ptolemy 1st stole a Pagan statue from Sinope , having been instructed in a dream by the ' unknown god ' to bring the statue to Alexandria , where the statue was pronounced to be Serapis by two religious experts." Though Ptolemy 1 may have created the cult of Sarap