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The Question of Identity: Ethnicity, Language, Religion, and Gender

Before Islam:  Egypt

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Woman Grinding Grain

Woman Grinding Grain

A woman grinding grain into flour on a handmill for the production of bread or beer. Both were staples of the Egyptian diet.

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