Old Kingdom
Ancient Egyptian capital cities along the antiquity
The first and most enduring capital of Egypt was Memphis which is located southwest of modern Cairo, near the junction of Nile valley and the Delta.It was founded at the beginning of the Dynastic p…
Lower Egypt
MEMPHIS
map of Memphis and its cemetery The city of Memphis, which has now disappeared almost completely, was the administrative and religious center of the 1st Lower Egyptian nome. It was the royal re…
middle egypt
Middle Egypt: Kom Madinet Ghurab to El-Lisht
Head of a queen, probably Tye from Kon Medinet Ghurab Kom Medinet Ghurab At the south side of the entrance to the Faiyum, on the edge of the desert some 3 km southwest of el-Lahun, there are…
middle egypt
Middle Egypt: El-Ashmunein to Ihnasya El-Medina
Ramessid calcite statuette of a priest with leopard-skin garment and a baboon squatting around his neck. Oxford, Ashmolean museum El-Ashmunein El-Ashmunein, ancient Egyptian Khmun (“8-town”…
temples
Tell Alamarna and its Temples
A relief fragment originally from Amarna, with depictions of altars loaded with offerings in a temple court. A reconstruction of the great temple of Atun Built on virgin ground roughly…
