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The ancient Egyptian military was responsible for defending Egypt against foreign invasion, and for maintaining Egypt's domination in the ancient Near East. The military protected mining expeditions to the Sinai during the Old Kingdom and fought civil wars during the First and Second Intermediate Periods.
Pages in category "Geography of ancient Egypt" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Lower Egypt;
Ancient Egypt – ancient civilization of eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BCE (according to conventional Egyptian chronology ) [ 1 ] with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh .
Joseph, another of Jacob's sons, is a high official in Egypt and allows his father and brothers to settle in Egypt. [2] In Genesis 45:10, Goshen is treated as being close to Joseph, who lives at the pharaoh's court [ 3 ] and in Genesis 47:5 Goshen is called "the best part" of the land of Egypt. [ 4 ]
Ancient Egyptian War Wheels. Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of eastern North Africa, concentrated along the northern reaches of the Nile River in Egypt.The civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and it developed over the next three millennia.
The known world of Ancient Egypt saw the Nile as the center, ... combining universal history with scientific geography. Ibn Hawqal (d. 978) who wrote Surat Al-Ard, ...
The geography of Egypt relates to two regions: North Africa and West Egypt has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea , the River Nile , and the Red Sea . Egypt borders Libya to the west, Palestine and Israel to the east and Sudan to the south (with a current dispute over the halaib triangle ).
Because the Sinai Peninsula was the main region where mining of turquoise was carried out in Ancient Egypt, it was called Biau (the "Mining Country") [3] and Khetiu Mafkat ("Ladders of Turquoise") [5] [6] by the ancient Egyptians.