2-714-354 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Map of Ancient Egypt', 1890. For almost 30 centuries from its unification around 3100 BC to its conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 BC, ancient Egypt was the preeminent civilization in the Mediterranean world. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]