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The visual commemorations of the unification of the Egyptian state focus on the person of the king, represented as much larger than others and the only one who takes action. The emphasis on the royal person pervades all aspects of early Egyptian society, and is one of the ideological pillars of Egyptian culture that endured throughout the country’s ancient history. At the creation of the state, the Egyptians formulated a vision of the world and its organization that was fundamental for all that followed in later millennia. They codified ideologies and established procedures and tools as the basis of official life, which would change and evolve in later history, but remained foundational.