About the book: 1999 / The monograph outlines the concept of the socio-natural history of Egypt in the 4th–2nd millennium BC. e. This is the first attempt in world Egyptology to reconstruct ancient Egyptian civilization on the basis of extensive natural scientific data. Analyzing known historical material from a paleoecological perspective, the author expresses fundamentally new views on the mechanisms of socio-political evolution of Pharaonic Egypt.