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According to inscriptions found in Memphis, Akhenaten (r. 1353/51–1336/34 BC; formerly Amenhotep IV) founded a temple of Aten in the city. [41] The burial chamber of one of the priests of this cult has been uncovered at Saqqara. [ 42 ]
Memphis was founded on May 22, 1819 by a group of investors, John Overton, James Winchester, and Andrew Jackson, [15] [16] and was incorporated as a city in 1826. [17] The city was named after the ancient capital of Egypt on the Nile River , itself named Memphis in Greek after the Egyptian name Mennefer for the Pyramid complex of pharaoh Pepi I ...
This makes Cairo Egypt's longest-running capital city, having retained this status for over 1,050 years under the rule of six dynasties followed by the British protectorate of Egypt and the Republic of Egypt. Alexandria was the second longest-lasting capital of Egypt, being used for the entirety of the Greco-Roman period, which lasted for 973 ...
Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur Giza: 1979 86; i, iii, vi (cultural) Memphis was the capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt and was founded around 3000 BCE. Its most important temple was dedicated to Ptah.
The temple was discovered by Auguste Mariette, [16] who had gone to Egypt to collect Coptic-language manuscripts, but later grew interested in the remains of the Saqqara necropolis. [17] In 1850, Mariette found the head of one sphinx sticking out of the shifting desert dunes, cleared the sand and followed the avenue to the site. In November the ...
Noph or Moph was the Hebrew name for the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, capital of Lower Egypt, [1] which stood on the Nile near the site of modern-day Cairo.It is mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible (Isaiah 19:13; Jeremiah 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19; Ezekiel. 30:13, 16).
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The Rosetta Stone decree, or the Decree of Memphis, is a Ptolemaic decree most notable for its bilingual and tri-scriptual nature, which enabled the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Issued by a council of priests confirming the royal cult of Ptolemy V in 196 BC at Memphis , it was written in Egyptian hieroglyphs , Egyptian Demotic and ...