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M.G. Hawking, Jenna Wolfe Ph.D.
ASIN: B01N00WWJ1
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 218

Explore the True Origins of a Majestic Civilization.For centuries, devoted scholars have endeavored to penetrate the mystery of Ancient Egypt, the stone-age culture that abruptly rose to create the greatest civilization of known history. Champollion, founder of Egyptology, was the first of a thousand such scholars, living simply in the heat and dust, trying to read for us the riddle of the achievements of a mysterious civilization, to snatch from the secretive soil the science and technology, the art and literature, the history and wisdom of Ancient Egypt. By its side Sumeria's culture was but a crude beginning; not even Greece or Rome would surpass it, far less our own.How did a small community just emerging from a Neolithic stage suddenly generate the most majestic and enduring civilization of the ages? The ascension of Ancient Egypt to a previously unknown zenith of culture lasting ...
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4 stars from 34 ratings