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Egypt: the essential lives

6 figures from Egypt, from the earliest recorded to the present day.

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Architect of the first pyramid and the earliest named physician in history.

The Almagest ruled astronomy for 1,400 years; his Geography guided Columbus.

Mathematician and astronomer murdered by a mob; symbol of learning against zealotry.

Chronicled Cairo across a century in the Cairo Trilogy.

Physician and writer who broke silence on FGM and patriarchy in the Arab world.

Founded femtochemistry, filming chemical bonds as they break.