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Ancient Egyptian Nile Inundation Festival

Institutionalized celebration of the annual flood regulated by pharaonic decree demonstrates the entanglement of environmental cycles with state power and collective ceremony.

When3100 BCE

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The question of the race of the people of ancient Egypt was raised historically as a product of the early racial concepts of the 18th and 19th centuries, and was linked to models of racial hierarchy primarily based on craniometry and anthropometry. A variety of views circulated about the racial identity of the Egyptians and the source of their culture.

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