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Memphis

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.
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.
Ruins of the temple of Hathor
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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