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and it went on for 3,000 years.
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But the empire they
amassed attracted invaders.
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Among the stories on
temple walls
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are accounts of
battles against outsiders
:27:14
who tried to conquer the
kingdom of the pharaons.
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But, the invading empires
:27:46
became more powerful
even more determined
:27:53
and so gradually, inevitably,
:27:57
the kingdom of Egypt began to crumble.
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Well, how could a place
:28:04
as powerful as Egypt just collapse?
:28:07
Actually, many things happened,
:28:10
but mostly it was the weakening
of the pharaons' power
:28:13
through civil turmoil,
:28:15
making Egypt vulnerable to invaders.
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Little by little
:28:22
much of the pharaons' great
empire-along
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with its secrets
was reclaimed by the desert.