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	MEMPHIS (EGYPT) - LoveToKnow Article on MEMPHIS (EGYPT) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Memphis was the chief city of the ist nome of Lower Egypt; in its early days it was known as " the white walls " or the " white wall," a name which clung :o its citadel down to Herodotus's day.
		At Saqqara, opposite Memphis itself, the step-pyramid of Zoser of the Illrd Dynasty, several pyramids of the Vth and Vlth Dynasties, and innumerable mastaba-tombs of the Old Kingdom, are crowded together in the cemetery.
		Memphis was incorporated as a town in 1827, and in 1849 was chartered as a city.
	62.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MEMPHIS_EGYPT_.htm (2254 words)

	Memphis, Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Memphis was the ancient capital of the first nome of Lower Egypt, and of the Old Kingdom of Egypt from its foundation until around 1300 BC.
		Hieroglyphs in Memphis with a statue of Ramses II in the background.
		Memphis reached a peak of prestige under the 6th Dynasty as a centre of the cult of Ptah.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Memphis,_Egypt (370 words)

	Egypt - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Egypt
		Napoleon's military expedition to Egypt in 1798 was ostensibly to suppress the Mamelukes and restore the authority of the Turkish sultan in Constantinople.
		The political prestige gained enabled Egypt, through the mediation of the US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, to negotiate two interim withdrawal agreements with Israel in January 1974 and September 1975, accompanied by the establishment of a UN buffer zone separating the rival armies.
		Egypt was a member of the UN coalition forces that sought an economic embargo against Iraq in 1990 for annexing Kuwait, and its armed forces joined in the military action against Iraq in 1991.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Egypt (7147 words)

	Memphis
		In the period of the Old Kingdom Memphis was the capital of Egypt.
		Memphis once again became an important city from the 25th dynasty, and there are a number of great monuments in Memphis proper from this period.
		Memphis survived as an important city until the Arab conquest in the 7th century, when Cairo came to be constructed.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/memphis.htm (226 words)

	Charles Bray and Memphis, In Egypt., Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Memphis: Ramona Bray took this picture in a close up were you could see the head of the Ramesses II statue showing the damage caused by years of lying in the sand.
		Memphis: Ramona Bray took this picture of the Colossus of Ramesses II in which it’s an enormous statue carved in limestone.
		Memphis: Charles Bray took this picture of the granite Statue of Ramses II stands guard on the grounds of Memphis.
	www.mylivingtree.com /Bray?175787 (304 words)

	Memphis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Memphis was the wife of Epaphus, the founder of Memphis, Egypt in Greek mythology.
		Memphis, Tennessee, city in the United States, the usual referent of Memphis in the U.S. Memphis, Alabama, town in the United States.
		Memphis Group, an influential design movement by Italian designers and architects in the 1980s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Memphis (172 words)

	Africa Stage: Team Dispatch - October 30, 1999
		Memphis is actually the Greek word for one of the many names the Ancient Egyptians used to denote the city.
		The Egyptian version of the name "Memphis", Mn-nfr, "the beautiful monument" was used originally for the pyramid of Pepi I, but from the 18th Dynasty on, this name was extended to cover the entire region or city where this pyramid was built.
		Thutmosis III and Amenhotep II often held residence at Memphis and to be accepted as a king of Egypt, one needed to be crowned at Memphis.
	www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/africa/103099/103099teammemphis.html (620 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Memphis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ancient capital of Egypt; diocese of the province of Arcadia or Heptanomos, suffragan of Oxyrynchus.
		Memphis is often mentioned in the Bible under the name of Môf or Nôf (Hosea 9:6; Isaiah 19:13; Jeremiah 2:16; 46:14, 19; Ezekiel 30:13, 16).
		Thus is fulfilled the word of the prophet (Jeremiah 46:19): "Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter inhabitant of Egypt, for Memphis shall be made desolate and shall be forsaken and uninhabited" (Mariette, "Voyage en Haute-Egypte", 1878, I, 31).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10176a.htm (630 words)

	The Ancient Egypt Site - Memphis, Capital of Ancient Egypt
		Memphis is the Greek version of one of the many names the Ancient Egyptians used to denote the city that lay on the border between Upper- and Lower-Egypt.
		Memphis was also the principal place of the cult of the god Ptah, who is accepted as a creator-god in the region.
		The principal necropoleis associated with Memphis were Saqqara and Giza, although other places to the West of the city were sometimes favoured as burial place as well.
	www.ancient-egypt.org /topography/memphis (507 words)

	Brian's Study Breaks
		The Exodus is traditionall dated to Egypt's 19th dynasty; when they looked back on the builders of the Pyramids at Giza, it would have been at the same remove as we look back at the early years of Islam and the Tang dynasty in China.
		As Praktike noted on the bus, it is interesting to think that in 5000 years it has been the world's largest city, capital of an empire, major religious center, and tourist attraction, and yet they still have not gotten around to paving their main street.
		Memphis today is basically a small Arab town with an open-air museum where you see a few statues of the 19th-dynasty pharaoh Ramses II and an "alabaster" sphinx made of limestone, but little to indicate its august origins.
	bjulrich.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_bjulrich_archive.html#111892018016... (7173 words)

	Memphis - Wikitravel
		Memphis is the English name for the present-day site of one of the great ancient capital cities of Egypt, located in and around several villages some 24 km (11 miles) south of the modern Egyptian capital of Cairo.
		The ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis was first established towards the end of the 4th millennium BCE by the Pharaoh Narmer, at the time of his Unification of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.
		Memphis was the chief cult city of the Egyptian god of wisdom and craftsmanship, Ptah.
	wikitravel.org /en/Memphis (497 words)

	AllRefer.com - Memphis, city, ancient Egypt (Ancient History, Egypt) - Encyclopedia
		The necropolis of Sakkara, near Memphis, was a favorite burial place for pharaohs of the Old Kingdom.
		Memphis remained important during the long dominance by Thebes and became the seat of the Persian satraps (525
		B.C. Second only to Alexandria under the Ptolemies and under Rome, it finally declined with the founding of nearby Fustat by the Arabs, and its ruins were largely removed for building in the new city and, later, in Cairo.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MemphisEg.html (273 words)

	Memphis, Tenn.
		Memphis was incorporated as a city in 1826 and became an important Mississippi River port.
		Memphis is known as “America's Distribution Center,” serving the northeast, southeast, and southwest regions of the country.
		Memphis, city, ancient Egypt - Memphis, ancient city of Egypt, capital of the Old Kingdom (c.3100–c.2258 B.C.), at the apex...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108552.html (586 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Heritage \| Capital names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Survey of Memphis, an Egypt Exploration Society project under the directorship of David Jeffreys, began an initial field survey in 1981-1982, its long-term goal being to draw up a stratified map of ancient Memphis, giving, where possible, ground plans of various structures at different stages of history.
		Krol is fascinated by the history of Memphis: "When Egypt was conquered by Alexander the Great and Alexandria was founded, Memphis was not eclipsed by the new capital," he says.
		Besides a citadel of Apries, the presence of administrative headquarters during the earlier Persian period is suggested by the discovery of Aramaic dockets and seals.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/629/hr1.htm (1789 words)

	MEMPHIS TOURS WORLDWIDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Monasticism was born in Egypt and was instrumental in the formation of the Coptic Church's character of submission and humbleness, thanks to the teachings and writings of the Great Fathers of Egypt's Deserts.
		The Christian face of Egypt started to change by the beginning of the second millennium A.D., when Copts, in addition to the "Gezya" tax, suffered from specific disabilities, some of which were serious and interfered with their freedom of worship.
		The 1919 A.D. revolution in Egypt, the first grassroots dispaly of Egyptian identity in centuries, stands as a witness to the homogeneity of Egypt's modern society with both its Muslim and Coptic sects.
	www.geocities.com /dunia22122000/MEMPHIS_TOURS1.html (3148 words)

	Egypt Tour Package - Holiday Package To Egypt - Egypt Travel Packages
		Cairo - the Triumphant City - is the glorious capital of Egypt, the cradle of civilization and the beacon of religion.
		Egypt enjoys a distinguished geographical location at the juncture of the ancient world continents of Africa, Asia and Europe.
		Egypt is a 'must see' destination and on this trip you can enjoy all the legendary sites and attractions of the Nile in comfortable fashion.
	myvisualtravel.com /tours/search_destination_map.asp?Country=Egypt&... (328 words)

	The Gods of Ancient Memphis \| The University of Memphis Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The exhibit coincides with another major event occurring at The Pyramid in downtown Memphis: the Memphis Wonders Series "Eternal Egypt: The Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum." Running through Oct. 21, this collection is being described at the most important Egyptian art exhibit since the King Tut tour of the 1970s.
		Memphis, was the capital of ancient Egypt for close to 5,000 years.
		The living city of ancient Memphis was located adjacent to the city of the dead - the burial grounds of Giza and Saqqara.
	www.memphis.edu /magazine/v19i3/feat2.html (1596 words)

	Memphis tours Egypt your guide in egypt since 1955 , comfortable accommedation professional stuff
		In Egypt, everything is quite safe...except sometimes the tap water, which you may choose not to drink as the water in Egypt is highly chlorinated.
		In Egypt, it is safe to eat fruits and vegetables, as long as the food has been washed.
		This was simply because of a change of weather and in many cases because of the change in the eating habits of the people on board.
	www.memphistours.com /info/info_01-18.php (1216 words)

	ANCIENT EGYPT : The Memphis Theology of the Shabaka Stone
		Of both, the theology of Memphis is intellectually superior and nearest to a naturalistic approach, eliminating the "first time" of myth and the flagrant conflicts of pre-rationality.
		In Ancient Egypt, the earliest traces of stable "schools" of cognitive reflections regarding the divine are the mythical and pre-rational theologies of the Old Kingdom, developed in Heliopolis (or "Ôn"), Memphis (or "Men-nefer") and Hermopolis (or "Khemenu")
		SECTION VI The Great Throne (Memphis) that gives joy to the heart of the gods in the House of Ptah is the granary of Tenen, the mistress of all life, through which the sustenance of the Two Lands is provided, (62) owing to the fact that Osiris was drowned in his water.
	www.maat.sofiatopia.org /memphis.htm (14397 words)

	Welcome to Memphis City Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Memphis City Schools will be offering four Saturday prep sessions for all of the upcoming Gateway Tests during the month of April.
		Memphis City Schools has one of the most “academically superior” schools in Tennessee and in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
		Memphis City Schools does not discriminate in its programs or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, handicap/disability, sex, or age.
	www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us (1106 words)

	Memphis, ancient city and capital of Egypt near Cairo
		Memphis, founded around 3,100 BC, is the legendary city of Menes, the King who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
		Rome may eventually outlast Memphis, but as with any city that remains active for thousands of years, the city center, and various areas of the city shifted over the years, so today, what we think of as Memphis is rather artificial.
		But the actual demise of Memphis probably occurred with the invasion of the Muslim conquerors in 641 when they established their new capital not at Memphis, but a short distance north of the city at Fustat, which is now a part of Cairo called Old Cairo, or Coptic Cairo.
	touregypt.net /memphis.htm (996 words)

	Egypt: Nordic Desert Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The existence of these two non-White groupings within Egypt was later to have a major impact on the history of that civilization, and also do much to destroy the "environmental" theory of the origin of civilizations, as all three groups shared the same environment, yet produced very different levels of achievement.
		During the reign of Menes, construction was first started on the greatest city of ancient Egypt, Memphis, which became the capital of this first kingdom.
		The Cheops pyramids are however not the oldest Egyptian pyramids - the step pyramid at Memphis predates the Cheops pyramids by at least a century, and was designed by a court architect who was later to be deified by the Egyptians, Imhotep.
	www.stormfront.org /whitehistory/hwr8.htm (1034 words)

	University of Memphis :: University News :: U of M-sponsored Find in Egypt Promises More "Wonderful Things"
		The University of Memphis, through its Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, has sponsored the Amenmesse Tomb Project (KV 10) – the scientific excavation and conservation of the tomb of Late 19th Dynasty King Amenmesse – since 1995, three years after the project was begun.
		The University of Memphis ' Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology was created in 1984 as a part of the Department of Art in the College of Communication and Fine Arts.
		The Institute is dedicated to the study of the art, history and culture of ancient Egypt through teaching, research (including excavation), exhibition, and community education.
	www.memphis.edu /releases/feb06/kv10.htm (446 words)

	Ramona Bray In Memphis, Edfu, Egypt. - photos of sightseeing in Egypt on Worldisround
		Memphis: Ramona Bray took this picture of the Colossus of Ramesses in...
		Memphis: Ramona Bray took this picture in a close up were you could...
		Memphis: Charles Bray took this picture of the granite Statue of Ramses II...
	www.worldisround.com /articles/132633 (184 words)

	BBC - History - Ancient Egypt Timeline
		Egypt splits into two smaller states, ruled from Memphis in the north and Thebes in the south
		Egypt becomes a province of the Roman Empire (30 BC)
		He is co-author with Jaromir Malek of Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt (2nd edition, 2000) and author of Fecundity figures: Egyptian personification and the iconology of a genre (reprinted 2001)
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/egyptians/timeline.shtml (238 words)

	Egypt Lessons
		The goal for these lessons in the Teacher Zone is for students to develop an understanding of the culture of Egypt and to develop critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
		Egypt has captured the imagination of people around the world as few, if any, other places have.
		In the event of a divorce, each person kept what he or she brought to the marriage, while property that was accrued during the marriage was divided.
	www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/teachers/egyptlessons.html (3360 words)

	Memphis (Egypt)
		Ruined city beside the Nile, 19 km/12 mi southwest of Cairo, Egypt.
		Once the centre of the worship of Ptah, it was the earliest capital of a united Egypt under King Menes in about 3050
		Memphis was later used as a stone quarry, but the ‘cemetery city’ of Sakkara survives, with the step pyramid built for King Zoser by Imhotep, probably the world's oldest stone building.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0002259.html (252 words)

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