For two centuries, the Hellenistic pharaohs have been fighting the Seleucid Empire. Until Pharaoh Ptolemy IV confronted Antiochos the Great. Both had inherited the military know-how of generals of Alexander the Great. At Raphia, more than 100,000 men clash, supported by hundreds of war elephants. We discover the combatants of this war, who came from the farthest reaches of the Mediterranean, the naval and military strategy of the Ptolemies and the dramatic consequences of this war.
