The roots of modern civilization are planted deeply in the highly elaborate life of those nations which rose into power over six thousand years ago, in the basin of the eastern Mediterranean, and the adjacent regions on the east of it.

— James Henry Breasted A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (1905)

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