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Alexandria. Rhacotis, Rakotə, Eskendereyyah. Alexandria was the intellectual and cultural center of the ancient world for some time; capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Khito (Rosetta) 3rd. Rashid. Bolbitine, Bolbitinum, Bolbitinon, Trashit, Rakhit, Rexi. Where Rosetta Stone was found.
The largest cities of the Bronze Age Near East housed several tens of thousands of people. Memphis in the Early Bronze Age, with some 30,000 inhabitants, was the largest city of the time by far. Ebla is estimated to have had a population of 40,000 inhabitants in the Intermediate Bronze age. [1] Ur in the Middle Bronze Age is estimated to have ...
Alexandria (/ ˌælɪɡˈzændriə, - ˈzɑːn -/ AL-ig-ZA (H)N-dree-ə; [4] Arabic: الإسكندرية; [a] Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια, [b] Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. It lies at the western edge of the Nile River ...
Name Description Aaru: The heavenly paradise often referred to as the Field Of Reeds, is an underworld realm where Osiris rules in ancient Egyptian mythology. Akhet: An Egyptian hieroglyph that represents the sun rising over a mountain. It is translated as "horizon" or "the place in the sky where the sun rises". [1] Benben
The city of Akhetaten was established in 1346 BC, built at the direction of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, and abandoned shortly after his death in 1332 BC. [1] The name that the ancient Egyptians used for the city is transliterated as Akhetaten or Akhetaton, meaning "the horizon of the Aten". [2]
This is a list of ancient Egyptian sites, throughout Egypt and Nubia. Sites are listed by their classical name whenever possible, if not by their modern name, and ...
Letopolis (Greek: Λητοῦς Πόλις) was an ancient Egyptian city, the capital of the second nome of Lower Egypt. Its Egyptian name was Khem 𓋊𓐍𓐝𓂜𓊖𓉐 (ḫm), [2] and the modern site of its remains is known as Ausim (Arabic: اوسيم, from Coptic: ⲟⲩϣⲏⲙ, ⲃⲟⲩϣⲏⲙ). [3][4][5] The city was a center of ...
Nome (Egypt) A nome (/ noʊm /, [1] from Ancient Greek: νομός, nomós, "district") was a territorial division in ancient Egypt. [2] Each nome was ruled by a nomarch (Ancient Egyptian: ḥrj tp ꜥꜣ, "Great Chief"). [3] The number of nomes changed through the various periods of the history of ancient Egypt.