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en-wikipedia-org-9863		Old Kingdom of Egypt - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3952	465	73	It is also known as the "Age of the Pyramids" or the "Age of the Pyramid Builders", as it encompasses the reigns of the great pyramid-builders of the Fourth Dynasty, such as King Sneferu, who perfected the art of pyramid-building, and the kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, who constructed the pyramids at Giza.[2] Egypt attained its first sustained peak of civilization during the Old Kingdom, the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods (followed by the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom), which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley.[3] The three primary principles of that style, frontality, composite composition, and hierarchy scale, illustrates this quite well.[15] These characteristics, initiated in the Early Dynastic Period[16] and solidified during the Old Kingdom, persisted with some adaptability throughout the entirety of ancient Egyptian history as the foundation of its art.[17]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9863.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9863.txt