NEW YORK – There is not much information about the Syrian Wars waged between the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt between 274 B.C. and 168 B.C.
What is known is that the wars so drained the infrastructure and manpower of both that their destruction and conquest by Rome and Parthia followed.
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