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Essay Archive - The Egyptian and Mesopotamian Empires
The Egyptian and Mesopotamian Empires
The origins of ancient Egyptian civilization, which may regard as
one of the fountainheads of the Western culture, cannot be established with
certainty. Archaeological evidence suggests that early dwellers in the Nile
Valley were influenced by cultures of the Near East, but the degree of this
influence is yet to be determined. Describing the development of Egyptian
civilization, like attempts to identify its intellectual foundations, is
largely a process of conjecture based on archaeologica....
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