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  2. Battle of Carchemish - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptians met the full might of the Babylonian and Median army led by Nebuchadnezzar II at Carchemish, where the combined Egyptian and Assyrian forces were destroyed. Assyria ceased to exist as an independent power, and Egypt retreated and was no longer a significant force in the Ancient Near East. Babylonia reached its economic peak after ...

  3. History of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The history of ancient Egypt spans the period from the early prehistoric settlements of the northern Nile valley to the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. The pharaonic period, the period in which Egypt was ruled by a pharaoh, is dated from the 32nd century BC, when Upper and Lower Egypt were unified, until the country fell under Macedonian rule in 332 BC.

  4. Ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ... Alexandria became the scene of great anti-pagan riots with public and private religious imagery destroyed. [69] As a ...

  5. History of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The history of Egypt has been long and wealthy, due to the flow of the Nile River with its fertile banks and delta, ...

  6. Arab conquest of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The Arab conquest of Egypt, led by the army of Amr ibn al-As, took place between 639 and 642 AD and was overseen by the Rashidun Caliphate. [1] It ended the seven-century-long Roman period in Egypt that had begun in 30 BC and, more broadly, the Greco-Roman period that had lasted about a millennium.

  7. List of wars involving Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Upper Egypt victory. Unification of egypt; Narmer? Egyptian expedition to Nubia: First Dynasty of Egypt: Nubian people: Victory: Hor-Aha? Egypto-Nubian conflict (c. 3100–3000 BC) First Dynasty of Egypt: A-Group culture Victory. A-Group culture destroyed by the pharaohs of Egypt. [1] Lower Nubia was not inhabited for centuries afterwards. [1 ...

  8. Sack of Thebes - Wikipedia

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    The sack of Thebes took place in 663 BC in the city of Thebes at the hands of the Neo-Assyrian Empire under king Ashurbanipal, then at war with the Kushite Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt under Tantamani, during the Assyrian conquest of Egypt.

  9. Yom Kippur War - Wikipedia

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    Abandoned or destroyed Egyptian armour being collected by IDF personnel, 12 October 1973. Between 10 and 13 October, both sides refrained from any large-scale actions, and the situation was relatively stable. Both sides launched small-scale attacks, and the Egyptians used helicopters to land commandos behind Israeli lines.