Peter M. Holt
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LOCATION: Kirtlington, Kidlington, United Kingdom
Emeritus Professor of the History of the Near and Middle East, University of London. Author of Egypt and the Fertile Crescent, 1516–1922 and others.
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Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt’s heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and, like Mesopotamia farther east, was the site of one of the world’s earliest urban and literate…
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