Abstract
After the Macedonian conquest, Egypt was under the Greek domination for three centuries (332–30 B.C.). Ptolemaic Egypt is really a part of the Hellenistic world. Its culture shows a mixture of the remnants of the old Egyptian tradition and the recently introduced Greek elements. There was a gradual replacement of the former by the latter. When the Roman became a great power, Egypt was reduced to a Roman province, and the country remained in Roman occupation until the Arabian conquest. This Roman occupation (30 B.C.–A.D. 640) gradually destroyed the last remnants of the old Egyptian tradition. In its later phase, namely the Byzantine or Coptic period (395–640 A.D.), the culture had changed so much that it would not be recognized as Egyptian by the Dynastic people. The history of beads and other antiquities shows the same traits as the history of culture as a whole.
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