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The unique flora and fauna, such as crocodiles and hippopotamuses. 3. Egyptian Law and Social Order
Diodorus Siculus was a Greek historian of the 1st century BC. His monumental work, the Bibliotheca historica , consisted of 40 books intended to provide a "Universal History" from mythological beginnings to his own time.