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Heliopolis (Jwnw, Iunu; Ancient Egyptian: 𓉺𓏌𓊖, romanized: jwnw, lit. 'the Pillars'; Coptic: ⲱⲛ; Greek: Ἡλιούπολις, romanized: Hēlioúpolis, lit. 'City of the Sun') was a major city of ancient Egypt. It was the capital of the 13th or Heliopolite Nome of Lower Egypt [citation needed] and a major religious centre.
This is a list of known ancient Egyptian towns and cities. [1] The list is for sites intended for permanent settlement and does not include fortresses and other locations of intermittent habitation. a capital of ancient Egypt
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.
The name of the town most likely comes from an Arabic name Rašīd (meaning "guide") [3] and was transcribed and corrupted in numerous ways – the name Rexi was used by the Crusaders in Middle Ages [4] and Rosetta or Rosette ("little rose" in Italian and French respectively) was used by the French at the time of Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt.
The ancient Egyptian site of el-Lisht can be found on the west bank of the Nile River, around 65 km south of the city of Cairo. It is a Twelfth Dynasty necropolis, close to the city of Itj-Tawy [1] from which the modern village assumably (given the proposed older form Al-Isht) takes name.
The oldest burials dated to the late Ptolemaic period, an era that ended in 30 B.C., while the newest burials dated to the Roman empire which ruled Egypt until 650 A.D. Archaeologists discovered a ...
Buto was a sacred site in dedication to the goddess Wadjet. [6] It was an important cultural site during prehistoric Egypt (before 3100 BCE).. The Buto-Maadi culture was the most important Lower Egyptian prehistoric culture, dating from 4000–3500 BC, [7] and contemporary with Naqada I and II phases in Upper Egypt.
Egypt’s Jewish population exceeded 80,000 people in 1948, but only about a dozen Jews remain in the country today. The Ark and "Menorah" at the newly restored Ben Ezra Synagogue, in old Cairo ...