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"This is an account of the rise and fall of the civilization in the Nile valley, covering the first human settelment (c.120,000 B.C.) to its conquest by Alexander the great in 333 B.C.It is the first reign-by reign history of ancient Egypt to be published since Sir Alan Gardiner's Egypt of the pharaos (1961) and takes full account of the many archeological, scientific and linguistic discoveries of the last three decades." -- Back cover.