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Here are the facts. Around 3000 BC, dynastic
Egypt appears almost out of nowhere.

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Artistically and architecturally, it starts
simply. No stone structures, but massive m...

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tombs and small but accomplished stone and
ivory artifacts. Yet it would appear that ...

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are already intact and fully developed.
Mathematics, astronomy, medicine, the comp...

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funerary texts, that knowledge is the legacy
and it takes but a few centuries to bring the

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execution of that knowledge architecturally
and artistically to perfection. From a tim...

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back into murky prehistory, the art and
architecture of ancient Egypt stand as proof

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of an almost supernatural control of the
material world and an eerie understanding ...

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of nature and the laws of beauty.