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 | | In approximately 4500 BC, at the dawn of the Neolithic era, man came closer to the mother Nile: the nomadic or semi-nomadic hordes finally settled, and Fayyum was immediately colonized. |
 | | When Queen Sobekneferure, the last severeign of the 12th Dynasty, died around 1785 BC, the legitimate order of succession was undoubtedly overturned, and, according to the Turin Papyrus, one hundred and sixty kings reigned between the end of the Middle and the beginning of the New Kingdoms. |
 | | The Roman eagle then stooped: in 130 BC, Ptolemy VIII Euregetes, the legitimate descendant of the Lagide Dynasty, was banished from Egypt by his own mother, Cleopatra III, who replaced him with his younger brother, Ptolemy IX Soter. |
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