History of Egypt, Part 1
Contributors: A. H. Sayce (Editor)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780766135017
Subjects: African history; Africa; Middle East - Egypt; History - General History
First sentence: A LONG, low, level shore, scarcely rising above the sea, a chain of vaguely defined and ever-shifting lakes and marshes, then the triangular plain beyond, whose apex is thrust thirty leagues into the land-this, the Delta of Egypt, has gradually been acquired from the sea, and is as it were the gift of the Nile.2