# Euclid Was An Egyption He was born in Alexandria. He lived there until death. It is just that Egypt was under the Greek rule. Diophantus too. It is a common myth that they all lived in mainland Greece. Classical Greeks thought like Aristotle. If something was Platonic, it might be from Egypt. Pythagoras also was a researcher in Egypt. He finally settled in Southern Italy. He died in there. Plato travelled to Southern Italy many and long times. He learned Pythagoreanism during those travels.