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The Egyptian name for Thebes was wꜣs.t, "City of the wꜣs", the sceptre of the pharaohs, a long staff with an animal's head and a forked base.From the end of the New Kingdom, Thebes was known in Egyptian as njw.t-jmn, the "City of Amun", the chief of the Theban Triad of deities whose other members were Mut and Khonsu.
The Turin Papyrus Map is an ancient Egyptian map, generally considered the oldest surviving map of topographical interest from the ancient world.It is drawn on a papyrus reportedly discovered at Deir el-Medina in Thebes, collected by Bernardino Drovetti (known as Napoleon's Proconsul) in Egypt sometime before 1824 and now preserved in Turin's Museo Egizio.
Elden Ring sold 13.4 million copies worldwide by the end of March 2022 and 28.6 million by September 2024, making it one of the best-selling video games of all time. [ 99 ] [ 100 ] It was the best-selling game in several regions between February and March 2022, [ 101 ] [ 102 ] and is the fastest-selling Bandai Namco game of all time.
The King’s Festivities Road. Avenue of Sphinxes or The King's Festivities Road, also known as Rams Road (Arabic: طريق الكباش) is a 2.7 km (1.7 mi) long avenue which connects Karnak Temple with Luxor Temple having been uncovered in the ancient city of Thebes (modern Luxor), with sphinxes and ram-headed statues lined up on both flanks.
A map of the Generations of Noah, placing the "Pathrusim" in Upper Egypt.. Pathros (Hebrew: פַּתְרוֹס; Paṯrōs; Ancient Greek: Φαθωρῆς, Phathōrēs; Koine Ancient Greek: Παθούρης, Pathourēs) refers to Upper Egypt, primarily the Thebaid where it extended from Elephantine fort to modern Asyut north of Thebes. [1]
Archaeological excavations in and around Thebes have revealed cist graves dated to Mycenaean times containing weapons, ivory, and tablets written in Linear B.Its attested name forms and relevant terms on tablets found locally or elsewhere include 𐀳𐀣𐀂, te-qa-i, [n 1] understood to be read as *Tʰēgʷai̮s (Ancient Greek: Θήβαις, Thēbais, i.e. "at Thebes", Thebes in the dative ...
Thebes or Thebae may refer to one of the following places: Thebes, Egypt, capital of Egypt under the 11th, early 12th, 17th and early 18th Dynasties; Thebes, Greece, a city in Boeotia; Phthiotic Thebes or Thessalian Thebes, an ancient city at Nea Anchialos; Thebae (Cilicia), a town of ancient Cilicia, now in Turkey; Thebes (Ionia), in Asia Minor
It is the oldest of West Thebes' necropolises. [2] It is a small mortuary temple, [3] and the farthest north of the Tombs of the Nobles, and contains tombs of the late First Intermediate Period, Second Intermediate Period and early Middle Kingdom. Old Kingdom mastabas are possibly attributed to local rulers of the Fourth or Fifth Dynasty. [1]