What Caused The End Of The Pyramid Age?

The professor explores one of Saqqara's last pyramid complexes to illustrate how Ancient Egypt's `Pyramid Age' came to an end. A worsening climate combined with political upheaval, famine and economic difficulties to plunge the state into a dark era of civil war, with the land dividing into smaller...

59 min - Ancient Worlds - Timeline - World History Documentaries

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