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 Sarapis / Serapis, and endorsed him as a patron of the  Ptolemaic dynasty of Alexandria,  Serapis was a syncretistic deity derived from the worship of the Egyptian God Osiris and Apis  (Osiris + Apis = Oserapis/Sarapis) ^[3] . and also gained attributes from other deities.

This same god was witnessed by Christian Apostle  Paul  at Athens and proclaimed God of everything. The Romans took over from the Macedonian Greeks.

Although Rome is rumoured to have had plans to conquer Babylon in 140BC they were unable to do so, on account of being at war (113-101 BC) with the combined armies of the   Gael/Gauls and the Cymbri . Battle of Arausio took place on 6 October 105 BC.

Caesar's victories in the Gallic Wars against  Vercingetorix, Battle of Gergovia, culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, which extended Rome's territory over the whole of Gaul to the English Channel and the Rhine. 

Whilst fighting Roman Civil war with Pompey, Julius Caesar also took sides in the Egyptian civil war between The child Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII and his sister Cleopatra,  whom he sided. with. 

Caesar  withstood the Siege of Alexandria and later defeated the Child Pharaoh  Ptolemy XIII's forces at the Battle of the Nile in 47 BC.

He made Cleopatra VII Philopator Queen  (together with her twelve-year old brother Ptolemy XIV). 

 

Caesar was keen to write Pagans out of history. Caesar's  "year of confusion".  45BC By adding 90 days to the year to realign the months of the Roman calendar with the seasons. 

The first Julian year commenced with January 1, 46 B.C. and the 708th year from the foundation of the city.  Rome founded  April 21, 753 BC.

After Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, Cleopatra aligned with Mark Antony in opposition to Caesar's legal heir, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (later known as Augustus). With Antony, she bore the twins Cleopatra Selene II and Alexander Helios, and another son, Ptolemy Philadelphus, (her unions with her brothers had produced no children). 

After losing the Battle of Actium to Octavian's forces, Mark Antony committed suicide. Cleopatra followed suit, according to tradition killing herself by means of an Asp bite on August 12, 30 BC.^[7] She was briefly outlived by Caesarion, who was declared Pharaoh by his supporters, but soon killed on Octavian's orders. Egypt became the Roman province of Aegyptus.