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The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred river had its source among the stars.
Robert Bauval
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Robert Bauval
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 5
Archaeologist
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Alexandria
Egypt
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Nile
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Egypt
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Fifth
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Went
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Herodotus
Stars
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