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Show EGYPT'S OLD CIVILIZATION. As early as 3800 B. C. Egypt is known to have-first have-first come under the rule of a single dynasty, but before that date stretch centuries of progress. When the Romans swept over Britain after Boa it -icea's rebellion they destroyed villages of wigwams wig-wams and reed built over circular excavotlons ; when they came to Egypt the pyramids of Gizn htut been standing for nearly 30 centuries, and Caesar-borrowed Caesar-borrowed the Egyptian calendar, wule!i was 13 centuries cen-turies older than the pyramids. |