A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America? Blinks of an eye...The very oldest root of civilization, at least of Western civilization, is Egypt. Look at the pyramid on the dollar bill. Look at the Washington Monumentβthe worldβs largest Egyptian obelisk. Egypt is still.......very much alive. β¨ Rick Riordan (2010). The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid, Hyperion
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- In the Duat, Anubis looked as he always had, with his tousled dark hair and lovely brown eyes, but Iβd never seen him filled with such rage. I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer h β¦ βΆ
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