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Badarian culture, unique for their thin-walled, rippled-surface pottery, flourishes in Upper Egypt. The Badarians practice agriculture and domesticate sheep and goats. |
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The Amratian (Naqada I) society of Upper Egypt shows embryonic signs of the hierarchical structure of pharaonic civilization. |
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First indication of the wrapping of bodies in strips of cloth, a type of early mummification. |
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Hieroglyphic script first developed. |
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Upper and Lower Egypt are unified, ushering in the Early Dynastic Period. Egypt's capital is at Memphis. |
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