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Given the phenomenon of "Egyptomania" in the West in the 19th century, why didn't political thought and literature from Ancient Egypt become as prominently studied or a source of inspiration for movements as Ancient Rome and Greece?

by /u/Shashank1000 in /r/AskHistorians

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