It has long been the Two Lands tirelessly and imperceptibly, when by force, and when - using the delight and envy of local rulers, and ordinary people, charming, bargaining and trading, selling, buying and wrapping tribute, entangling, charming and winning in every sense, slowly swallowed Kush and Vavat. True, quite recently, in the unremarkable times of foreign rule in a decent society, the times of multi-kingdom and Hyksos rulers, everything seemed lost and dead...