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unusual facts about First Dynasty of Egypt


First Dynasty of Egypt

Tamarix – tamarisk, salt cedar was used to build boats such as the Abydos Boats.


Michael A. Hoffman

On an excavation in 1984, he used sludge pumps to keep the site dry which paid off because he found a stratigraphic link from Dynasty 1 to Naqada 1.

Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt

After an interval of independence, during which three indigenous dynasties reigned (the 28th, 29th, and 30th dynasty), Artaxerxes III (358 BC) reconquered the Nile valley for a brief second period (343 BC), which is called the thirty-first dynasty of Egypt.


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