id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt uva.x000133961 Frankfort, Henri The birth of civilization in the Near East 1951 .txt text/plain 22228 1571 71 Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilization. Impression of a Mesopotamian cylinder seal, from Egypt Dynasty in Egypt, and a seal impression of the second that the Egyptians considered their king a god, entombed him Spengler) the Egyptians had very little sense of history or of past The earliest civilized society of Mesopotamia crystallized in separate nuclei, a number of distinct, autonomous cities-clear-cut, self-assertive polities—with the surrounding However, in this phase of Egyptian civilization, signs of contact city in the political thought of the Egyptians." In Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian usages of the Protoliterate period (Fig. 48). with which brick building appears under the First Egyptian dynasty, those on First Dynasty monuments in Egypt (Figs. renderings were not copied in Egypt, but that the Egyptian and Early Dynastic times, in use in Mesopotamia but not in Egypt, 2 The Egyptian designs (Figs. of temples in Mesopotamia (Fig. 44 right) very closely. art : Egyptian, 80, 83, Mesopotamian ./cache/uva.x000133961.pdf ./txt/uva.x000133961.txt