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Ancient Civilisations Figures in Middle East
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Khufu
-2600–-2566Egypt
He ordered the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza — one of the most ambitious building projects in human history — and almost nothing else about him is known with any certainty.
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Narmer
-3150–-3100Egypt
He may have unified Egypt at the dawn of recorded history — or the famous palette that shows him doing so may be ceremonial art — and we still can't quite be sure which.
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Saul
-1050–-1010Israel
He was everything the Israelites asked for in a king — tall, strong, from the right tribe — and fell apart under the pressure of a role he couldn't quite figure out how to play.
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Solomon
-990–-931Israel
He was famed for wisdom, built the Temple, accumulated vast wealth — and left a kingdom so strained by the cost of his ambitions that it split apart after his death.
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