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Excerpt from Photographic Views of Egypt, Past and Present
And yet that Old Alexandria, which began to be in the fourth century before Christ, and of all whose palaces and temples and monuments only two columns are now stand ing, was the youngest of Egyptian cities, and was built by the conqueror Of Egypt when Thebes, and Memphis, and the university city Of Heliopolis, were already in their de cline. Such is the antiquity that meet us at the threshold of the land of the Nile. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
