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In AD 324, Egypt officially became a Christian county.
In AD 641 Arab invaders introduced their religion Islam to Egypt. This saw the end of the many gods religion. Because of the closing down of temples took 12 centuries before anyone could work out how to read the hieroglyphics.Only priests, scribes and craftsmen had been taught to understand hieroglyphics. As they died nobody could understand them.

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