The Most Deformed Royal Families Ever Documented

The Most Deformed Royal Families Ever Documented The Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt ruled for nearly three centuries, from 305 BC to 30 BC, and they did it almost entirely by marrying each other. Founded by Ptolemy the First after the death of Alexander the Great, the dynasty was Greek in origin but Egyptian in setting, and they adopted the local religious tradition that pharaohs were living gods — a belief that conveniently justified keeping divine blood undiluted by outsiders.