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	Akhmim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akhmim (Arabic اخميم) is a town of Upper Egypt, on the right bank of the Nile, 67 mi by river south of Asyut, and 4 mi above Suhaj, on the opposite side of the river where there is railway communication with Cairo and Aswan.
		Akhmim once had a reputation as being home of the greatest magicians in Egypt.
		A supernatural being that was said to dwell there, the Serpent of Akhmim, was supposedly regarded as an angel by Muslims and as an incarnation of the demon Asmodeus by Christians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akhmim (415 words)

	AKHMIM - LoveToKnow Article on AKHMIM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Akhmim was the Egyptian Apu or Khen-min, in Coptic Shmin, known to the Greeks as Chemmis or Panopolis, capital of the gth or Chemmite nome of Upper Egypt.
		Strabo mentions linen-weaving as an ancient industry of Panopolis, and it is not altogether a coincidence that the cemetery of Akhmim is one of the chief sources of the beautiful textiles of Roman and Coptic age that are brought from Egypt.
		Nonnus, the Greek poet, was born at Panopolis at the end of the 4th century.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AK/AKHMIM.htm (587 words)

	Chapter 3
		In Akhmim it was the ithyphallic god Min, a symbol of male potency and serving also as protector of the mining areas in the Eastern desert.
		Akhmim was one such centre, and, as work by Kanawati (1988) subsequently showed from the discovery of the tomb of Hem-Min, a governor of Egypt in the 6th.Dynasty, circa 2345 BC.
		Akhmim was one of the earliest centres of Christianity, where the temples were ransacked for building blocks in the fourth century AD to construct the nearby Red and White Monasteries, among the oldest in the world.
	ambilac-uk.tripod.com /akhmim/id3.html (1399 words)

	Akhmim -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		(additional info and facts about Strabo) Strabo mentions linen-weaving as an ancient industry of Panopolis, and it is not altogether a coincidence that the cemetery of Akhmim is one of the chief sources of the beautiful textiles of (An inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire) Roman and Coptic age that are brought from Egypt.
		Some years earlier (Syrian who was a Christian bishop and Patriarch of Constantinople in the early fifth century; one of the major heresies concerning the doctrine of Christ was named after him (died in 451)) Nestorius, the ex-patriarch, had succumbed perhaps to his persecution and to old age in the neighborhood of Akhmim.
		Akhmim once had a reputation as being home of the greatest (Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience) magicians in Egypt.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ak/akhmim.htm (277 words)

	Akhmim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		everywhere in the Upper Egypt city of Akhmim, and mining it is a constant occupation...
		Akhmim was the Egyptian Apu, or Khen-min (in Coptic, Shmin) known to the Greekss as Chemmis or Panopolis, capital of the Chemmite nome of Upper Egypt.
		The Akhmim Fragment of the Apocryphal Gospel of Peter
	hallencyclopedia.com /Akhmim (687 words)

	Chapter 2
		Akhmim, sometimes referred to as Echmim, is located in the region known as Upper Egypt, North East Africa (shown on the survey of Egypt map 43/690 scale 1:25,000) and situated on the East bank of the Nile in close proximity to a sharp bend in the river.
		The cemeteries of Akhmim include that of El-Hawawish, North East of the town, where the hills rise some 300 metres in height from the barren plains of capped conglomerate limestone and overlooking the Nile valley.
		Akhmim lay in a central position, between the Old Kingdom capital of Memphis at the junction of the Delta and Nile valley, with Aswan on the Southern border and one of the most productive areas of the valley.
	www.ambilacuk.com /akhmim/id2.html (400 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Front Page \| Colossal find (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hawass said early studies revealed that the statue might have stood in front of the entrance to the pylon of a great temple of Ramses II at Akhmim, and that this suggested the existence of a second statue on the other side which could still be buried in the sand.
		As well as being the hub of Egypt's ancient weaving industry, Akhmim was the capital of the ninth nome of Upper Egypt and the religious centre of the fertility god Min.
		Akhmim now perches on a high mound, with an archaeological wealth beneath its foundations, about to be further explored, with potentially significant results.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/703/fr1.htm (871 words)

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		The Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium (AMSC) is an organization involved in ground-breaking forensic research on the ancient population of the Egyptian city of Akhmim.
		Akhmim clearly rose in importance in New Kingdom times, and is known as the birthplace of Tutankhamun's maternal grandparents Yuya and Thuya.
		Akhmim is known to have been a focal area of native reaction to the Ptolemaic regime.
	www.amscresearch.com (693 words)

	Current Exhibitions - The College of Wooster Art Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Akhmim Studies Consortium is a non-profit entity whose primary purpose is to advance knowledge of Akhmimic culture and history through the scientific study of its ancient population as represented by mummies recovered from the site in Egypt at the end of the nineteenth century.
		The Wooster mummy and coffin came from a cemetery in Akhmim, Egypt that was uncovered in Spring 1884.
		Akhmim, a major linen production center on a bend of the River Nile, was located 292 miles south of Cairo, east of modern Sohag in the region known as Middle Egypt.
	www.wooster.edu /artmuseum/mummy/faq.html (1336 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Features \| A past life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Indeed it is as if Akhmim made the decision, some 200 years ago, to put time on a halt.
		This is due to the fact that Akhmim was arguably the only town excluded from the wave of urbanisation and modernisation that accompanied 20th-century industrialisation in its various guises, much of which focussed on commercially viable areas, whether in terms of the national economy or in terms of tourism potential.
		Akhmim was simply left to its own devices and the forces of the free-market economy.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/760/feature.htm (255 words)

	Egypt: Akhmim (Ipu)
		Akhmim, is an area on the east bank of the Nile opposite modern Sohag.
		Left: Lid of the outer coffin of Espamai, A priest at Akhmim in the 26th and 27th Dynasties.
		Tiy became a very important Queen during this period, and is believed to have been the mother of Akhenaten, the heretic King.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/akhmim.htm (601 words)

	Akhmim - Destination Guide - Hotel Near (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Akhmimis have built on the rubble of their ancestors since pre-Dynastic times, so the whole town rests on a mound of remains, with a maze-like street plan essentially unchanged since the Middle Ages.
		Akhmim's main sight is an eleven-metre-high limestone statue of Meryut Amun, accidentally uncovered in 1981 along the main road running east from the market.
		Little is known about Princess Meryut Amun, who may have been a daughter (or wife) of Ramses II, but her statue is memorably vivid, with curled hair and rouged lips.
	www.hotelnear.com /1/3/26g/Egypt-Akhmim-Destination_Guide.html (369 words)

	An Illicit Journey Out of Egypt, Only a Few Questions Asked
		The past is everywhere in the Upper Egypt city of Akhmim, and mining it is a constant occupation.
		It was there that the Akhmim stele had been unearthed several months before, along with several small statues, a painted wooden sarcophagus and three smaller steles.
		Modern Akhmim, a weaving and trading center 350 miles south of Cairo, has the look of a Nileside boomtown, chockablock with construction cranes and apartment towers hastily built for people flowing in from the countryside.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1083851/posts (5874 words)

	The Town of Akhmim in Egypt
		It is an ancient town, known as Ipu or Khent-Menu to the early Egyptians and Panopolis to the Greeks.
		Panopolis was named for the principal god of the city, Min, who was Pan to the Greeks and the god of fertility and master of the deserts between the Nile and the Red Sea.
		Plutarch states that, "The pans and Satyris who live near Chemmis (Akhmim) were the first to learn of the death of Osiris and spread the news.
	www.touregypt.net /akhmim.htm (284 words)

	Akhmim
		Akhmim was the center of the cult of the ithyphallic god Min.
		It was located on the east bank of the Nile just to the north of Abydos in Upper Egypt.
		Extensive necropolises at Akhmim date from the Sixth Dynasty until the Ptolomaic Period.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/7987/akhmim_1.html (152 words)

	Akhmim -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The town is located on the Nile's western bank between Asyut and Jirja, immediately across from Akhmim on the eastern bank.
		Automobile parts are distributed, and it is a centre for vehicle repair.
		His cult was strongest in Coptos and Akhmim (Panopolis), where in his honour...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9005281?tocId=9005281 (350 words)

	Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Chem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Moreover, since Min was worshipped prominently at the village of Akhmim (ancient Panopolis), it was believed that the name of the god "Khem" was preserved in the Arabic name "Akhmim", thus apparently strengthening the notion that the god should properly be known as "Khem".
		The later hieroglyphic writing of his name that lead to the error is not phonetic in nature, but rather ideographic, the hieroglyph being traced back to Predynastic cult symbols of the god that were later used to represent his name in writing.
		Finally, Akhmim was anciently known as and#7723;m-mnw, meaning "Shrine of Min"; in Demotic it was shortened to andscaron;mn (the /andscaron;/ reflecting the pronunciation of /and#7723;/ at that time; cf.
	www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=chem (533 words)

	Amazon.com: Nekropolis: Books: Maureen F. McHugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A harni is a chimera, a genetically engineered man who may or may not be human, but who is stunningly handsome and who treats Hariba with a gentle, attentive consideration she has never before experienced.
		The chimera, Akhmim, is so unlike Hariba's expectations that her fear and hatred give way to love and, impossibly, to dissatisfaction with her scientifically cemented loyalty.
		Akhmim on the other hand was someone who has no choice but to be a slave.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380791234?v=glance (2328 words)

	Ethics of Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But unsanctioned digging goes on all over Akhmim -- at an ancient cemetery riddled with holes left by looters; at farms and construction sites; inside homes where residents, sometimes inspired by the divinations of fortune tellers, hunt for treasure beneath dirt floors.
		But beneath the surface lies an archaeological layer cake, rich with the leavings of the past -- the early Islamic layer upon the Roman layer upon the Greek layer upon the monuments and everyday objects of the city the ancient Egyptians named for the fertility god Min.
		A12); The limestone funeral stele that was excavated by laborers in Akhmim, Egypt, in 1994.
	orion.ramapo.edu /~lcassidy/business/busisessay.htm (7295 words)

	AKHMIM - Online Information article about AKHMIM
		Akhmim has several mosques and two Coptic churches, maintains a weekly See also:
		cemetery of Akhmim is one of the See also:
		patriarch, had succumbed perhaps to his persecution and to old age, in the neighbourhood of Akhmim.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /AJA_ALL/AKHMIM.html (573 words)

	Westminster College Charter Member of Akhmim Studies Consortium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- Westminster College is a charter member of the Akhmim Studies Consortium, which will research items related to Egypt’s historic Akhmim region and its relationship to the art and culture of Ptolemaic Egypt.
		“Akhmim Studies Consortium has established the “Mummy Scanning Initiative,” which is committed to expanding our knowledge of Akhmim’s people through CT scan-based evaluation of its mummies,” Elias continued.
		The mummy was excavated from the city of Akhmim, about 235 miles south of Cairo.
	www.business-journal.com /archives/20040629WestminsterConsortium.asp (378 words)

	AllRefer.com - Akhmim, Egypt (Egyptian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
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		Textiles and handicrafts are manufactured; grain, dates, and cotton are processed.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Akhmim.html (138 words)

	Additional sum may give impetus to Akhmim Temple project
		Meanwhile, Dr Gaballah Ali Gaballah Secretary General SCA has brought about this week a surprise saying that the famous statue of Merit Amon found in Akhmim in l981 did not belong to her but rather to a queen of the l8th dynasty.
		It was reused in the age of Ramsis of the l9th dynasty as it was customary at the time to reuse statues of previous dynasties after changing the cartouche and adding new names.
		Director of Upper Egyptian Antiquities Dr Yehia Al Masri said that Akhmim, the capital of the 9th Upper Egyptian province had always raised many question marks as to its history especially after the discovery of l3 stone blocks dating back to the Amerna age.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/020214/2002021445.html (514 words)

	Panel with the Triumph of Dionysus [Egyptian; Said to be from Akhmim] (90.5.873) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Panel with the Triumph of Dionysus [Egyptian; Said to be from Akhmim] (90.5.873)
		This fourth-century panel, which may have been part of a ritual or festive garment, most probably comes from Akhmim in Egypt.
		It was created in the Early Byzantine period, from undyed linen and purple wool.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ho/05/afe/hod_90.5.873.htm (172 words)

	The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
		The Akhmim Codex -- containing portions of three Gnostic texts, now known as the Apocryphon of John, the Sophia of Jesus Christ, and the Gospel of Mary -- was acquired in Cairo in 1896.
		Versions of these texts in the Akhmim Codex were used to augment the translations of the Apocryphon of John and the Sophia of Jesus Christ which now appear in the
		The codex also contained the only known surviving copy of the Gospel of Mary (as the text is named in the manuscript, though it is clear this named Mary is the same person we call Mary Magdalene).
	www.gnostics.com /gmm.html (1346 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Today many believe she was from a town now called Akhmim and belonged to the same influential family as Queen Tiye.
		Wherever Nefertiti was born, she was a part of Akhenaten's revolution...
		She lived her short lifespan, probably in some style, in northern Egypt in a once bustling town called Akhmim, in the early-Ptolemaic period around 150BC.
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?FN=SS&search_newspapers=on&search_magazines=on&q=Akhmim&refid=ency_botnm (627 words)

	Syria, Akhmim, late 8th - early 9th centuries / Fragmentary Roundel, Segmentum from a Tunic / late 8th-early 9th century
		Syria, Akhmim, late 8th - early 9th centuries / Fragmentary Roundel, Segmentum from a Tunic / late 8th-early 9th century
		This image is one of over 118,000 from The Art Museum Image Consortium Library (The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from 39 museums around the world.
		Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amico for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amico@luna-img.com.
	www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico12213889-34970.html (295 words)

	Breaking The RMP 2/nth Table Code
		The Akhmim Papyrus, a Hellene 500 AD to 800 AD papyrus, found along the Nile, was cited cited by Wilbur Knorr, Stanford History of Science Department, in
		The Akhmim Paprus' full use of p/q as an elementary number theory element is easily coinnect to 2000 BC - 1650 BC Egyptian fractions by the 2/nth beginning terms.
		As a 500 AD to 800 AD Akhmim Papyrus point, the Egyptian inverted Golden Proportion seems to be improved upon, as Howard Eves noted in his
	www.ecst.csuchico.edu /~atman/Misc/horus-eye.html (929 words)

	AKHMIM
		AKHMIM - THE LOST CITY OF ANCIENT EGYPT
		Welcome to the AKHMIM site, a little known but highly important gnome (political centre) of ancient Egypt.
		Find out why respectable Egyptologists robbed ancient sites and for what purpose (and where are these artefacts today?)- what is the connection with Tutunkhamun, his wife and his murderer and this little known ancient site Akhmim??
	ambilacuk.com /akhmim (81 words)

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