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The hieroglyphic
namr of Memphis |
Memphis described Ankh-tawy (That Which Joins the Two Lands) or Men-nefer (after the name of a near pyramid) in ancient times, Memphis was the capital of Egypt and therefore the residency of kings in the
Predynastic Period and
Old Kingdom. Its placement was just south of the set where
the Nile opens to form the Delta, about fifteen miles south of what is now Cairo. Its break, either
King Narmer or
King Aha, chose this situation for its positioning between
Upper and
Lower Egypt. Reported to legend, the king showed the city by establishing a dam to reroute a arm of the Nile and form a flat plain where he could form, and this dam was reinforced by incidental kings. So, scientists from the Egypt Exploration Society, a British administration that supports scientific explore in Egypt, recently addressed that the course of the Nile River near Memphis is importantly east of its original location, and from geological prove they suspect that this redirection was artificial rather than natural.
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| The location of Memphis |
To the west of Memphis lies a necropolis with a important number of tombs and pyramids. Today this graveyard country is related to in terms of its several areas, each one addressed for a nearby village: Dashur,
Saqqara,
Abusir, Zawiyet el-Aryan, Giza, and
Abu Roash. complete of these are great archaeological websites that stay to be pictures of ongoing research.
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| Ruins of the temple of Ptah |
Even after
Twelfth Dynasty king Amenemhet I went Egypts capital to close Itj-tawy (plausibly in the field of
el-Lisht, though it has never been learned), Memphis stayed a leading administrative and religious center. In fact, passim its history Memphis was a cult heart for the
god Ptah, and so has a Temple of Ptah. The city likewise has a palace, the Palace of White Walls, established by either Narmer or Aha.
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