Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt was the long, particular strip of ancient Egypt located south of the Delta. This area is written of four topographic zones: the Nile, the floodplain, the low desert, and the high desert. The ancient Egyptians worked each zone differently.

Upper Egypt, geographical and cultural section of Egypt, generally consisting of the Nile River valley south of the delta and the 30th simultaneous N. It thus dwells of the entire Nile River valley from Cairo south to Lake Nasser (organized by the Aswan High Dam). This division also takes what some scholars term Middle Egypt (nearly from Lisht to Panopolis).

In late predynastic times, Upper Egypt constituted a political entity sort from Lower Egypt (the delta region). But Menes (flourished 2900 bce) united Upper and Lower Egypt, and each Egyptian king thereafter had as one of his royal titles “King of Upper and Lower Egypt” (“He of the Sut-Plant and the Bee”), thus meaning that he was the deified theatrical of those divisions’ fusion.

Upper Egypt

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Lower Egypt

Ancient Egypt was widespread into two regions: upper and lower Egypt. Lower (north) Egypt lied of the Nile River's delta made by the river as it discharges into the Mediterranean. Today the Delta is 15000 square miles of alluvium (silt), which has been situated over the centuries by the annual inundation of the Nile. Prior to the New Kingdom (before about 1539 B.C.), this area was only thinly settled, although it was used as a shaving area for cattle. Its high water table in modern times has made archeological mining for evidence of settlements hard.

Lower Egypt

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Climate in Ancient Egypt

Egypt triumphs, more than virtually any other country, in an equable climate, an temperate temperature, and an equable productivity. The summers, no doubt, are hot, especially in the south, and an casual sirocco produces intense irritation while it lasts. But the cool Etesian wind, sucking from the north through almost all the summer-time, tempers the zeal of the sun's rays even in the hottest season of the year; and during the remaining months, from October to April, the climate is plainly delightful. Egypt has been said to have but two seasons, spring and summer. Spring reigns from October into May-crops spring up, flowers bloom, soft zephyrs fan the nerve, when it is mid-winter in Europe; by February the fruit-trees are in full blossom; the crops set out to ripen in March, and are drawn by the end of April; snow and freeze are wholly obscure at any time; storm, fog, and even rain are rare. A bright, lucid air rests upon the entire scene. There is no moisture in the air, no cloud in the sky; no mist-veils the aloofness. One day follows another, every the counterpart of the leading; until at length spring retires to make room for summer, and a fiercer light, a hotter sun, a longer day, show that the most enjoyable break of the year is got by.

In general, there is fair weather in Egypt passim the year, but there are noted temperature conflicts between seasons and between various parts of the country. The climate is qualified by a two-season year: a relatively modern winter from November to April and a dry, close summer from May to October. In the Delta in the north, the highest regular temperature in the middle of winter is 50 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit and in the fastest season 90 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It is about 10 points hotter in southern Egypt. Rain in the Nile Valley is negligible, no more than 100 to 200 millimetres (4 to 8 inches) per year in the Delta.

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Geology of Ancient Egypt

Geology of Ancient Egypt

The geology of ancient Egypt is simple. The total flat country is alluvial. The mounds on either side are, in the north, limestone, in the central part sandstone, and in the southern granite and syenite. The granitic establishment begins between the 24 and 25 duplicates, but occasional masses of primitive rock are poked into the secondary parts, and these extend north as far as lat. 2710'. Above the rocks are, in many places, repositories of gravel and sand, the former hard, the latter loose and changing. A portion of the eastern desert is metalliferous. Gold is found even at the face day in small quantities, and looks anciently to have been more abundant. Copper, iron, and leading have been also met with in modern times, and one iron mine points signs of having been anciently made. Emeralds abound in the area about Mount Zabara, and the east desert further yields jaspers, carnelians, breccia verde, agates, chalcedonies, and rock-crystal.