History of Egypt For almost 30 centuries—from its unification around 3100 B.C. to its conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.—ancient Egypt was the preeminent civilization in the Mediterranean world. From the great pyramids of the Old Kingdom through the military conquests of the New Kingdom, Egypt’s majesty has long entranced archaeologists and historians...Read More
Geography of Egypt Roughly Egyptian territory has an almost square shape and is touched by the northern tropic. The landscape alternates between the northern coastal landscape characterized by steppe or thorn savannah, deserts, semi-deserts, many oases, sea areas and the river landscape of the Nile. Next to the Suez Canal from Port Said to Port Taufiq...Read More