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This volume beautifully illustrated with photographs, maps, diagrams and line drawings covers the 4,000 year history of ancient Egypt from predynastic time to the end of the Ptolemaic period (30 B.C.) through its discovery by Napoleonic explorers, by later travelers and explorers, and finally by the professional scholars and archeologists of today. Also examined is Egyptian civilization - the fascinating topics as the conventions of representation in art, the role of the pharaoh in religion, the pyramids and the technique of mummification.