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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a long-lived civilization in north-eastern Africa.

It was concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River, reaching its greatest extension during the second millennium BC, which is referred to as the New Kingdom period.

It reached broadly from the Nile Delta in the north, as far south as Jebel Barkal at the Fourth Cataract of the Nile..

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