He spent almost two decades working in Egypt in the Bay of Alexandria attempting [to] map the Portus Magnus, the great port of Alexandria, one of the most important cities of the ancient world.

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?