Today, I'm going to discuss a truly fascinating aspect of ancient Egyptian culture, that few people know about. It's one of my absolute favorite facets of Egyptian mythology and religious practice during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods: Greco-Egyptian cults. After Alexander the Great conquered and hellenized Egypt, there was a tremendous increase in contact and cultural exchanges between the Greeks, Romans, and Native Egyptians, which spurred the creation of so-called "syncre