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Reconstruction of the Oikoumene (inhabited world), an ancient map based on Herodotus' description of the world, c. 450 BC The Nile has been the lifeline of civilization in Egypt since the Stone Age , with most of the population and all of the cities of Egypt developing along those parts of the Nile valley lying north of Aswan.
Alexandria was the intellectual and cultural center of the ancient world for some time; capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom: Khito 3rd Rashid: Bolbitine, Bolbitinum, Bolbitinon, Trashit, Rakhit, Rexi: Where Rosetta Stone was found: Ptkheka (Ptkheka) 4th Neith: Tanta: Capital of its nome: Zau
Meroë (/ ˈ m ɛr oʊ iː /; [1] also spelled Meroe; [2] Meroitic: Medewi; Arabic: مرواه, romanized: Meruwah and مروي, Meruwi; Ancient Greek: Μερόη, romanized: Meróē) was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum.
English: Map of Ancient Egypt, showing the Nile up to the fifth cataract, and major cities and sites of the Dynastic period (c. 3150 BC to 30 BC). Cairo and Jerusalem are shown as reference cities. Cairo and Jerusalem are shown as reference cities.
Thebes (Arabic: طيبة, Ancient Greek: Θῆβαι, Thēbai), known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset, was an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile about 800 kilometers (500 mi) south of the Mediterranean. Its ruins lie within the modern Egyptian city of Luxor.
The main city of prehistoric Upper Egypt was Nekhen. [8] The patron deity was the goddess Nekhbet, depicted as a vulture. [9] By approximately 3600 BC, Neolithic Egyptian societies along the Nile based their culture on the raising of crops and the domestication of animals. [10] Shortly thereafter, Egypt began to grow and increase in complexity ...
Map of the world according to Herodotus. During the Iron Age and Classical antiquity, Libya (from Greek Λιβύη: Libyē, which came from Berber: Libu) referred to the area of North Africa directly west of the Nile river (Modern day Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco), not to be confused with modern country Libya which only represents the eastern part of the territory at the time.
Lower Egypt (Arabic: مصر السفلى Miṣr as-Suflā; Coptic: ⲧⲥⲁϧⲏⲧ, romanized: Tsakhet) is the northernmost region of Egypt, which consists of the fertile Nile Delta between Upper Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, from El Aiyat, south of modern-day Cairo, and Dahshur. Historically, the Nile River split into seven branches of ...