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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…
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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”…
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Middle Egypt: El-‘Amarna to Deir El-Bersha
El-‘Amarna Plan of El-Amarna city El-‘Amarna (also Tell el-‘Amarna), ancient Egyptian Akhetaten (“The Horizon of the sun Disk”), was the short-lived capital if Egypt, the royal reside…
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Middle Egypt : Asyut to Meir
Group of 40 model soldiers armed with spears and shields, from the tomb of Mesehti at Asyut, probably 12 th Dynasty. Painted wood, Cairo Egyptian museum. Asyut Asyut (a…
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MIDDLE EGYPT
The term Middle Egypt describes the area between Asyut and Memphis, therefore, somewhat confusingly, the northern part of Upper Egypt of the traditional terminology ; both limits are geographic…
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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…
