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	Egypt: Nekhbet, Goddess of Upper Egypt, Childbirth and Protector of Pharaoh
		Egypt: Nekhbet, Goddess of Upper Egypt, Childbirth and Protector of Pharaoh
		From local goddess of a predynastic town to the goddess of Upper Egypt, Nekhbet became one of Egypt's symbols.
		She was worshiped as a goddess as well as being the personification of the south, the vulture goddess who was one half of a manifestation of the idea of duality that was a basis of ma'at for as long as the pharaohs ruled Egypt.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/nekhbet.htm (1160 words)

	Ancient Egypt - MSN Encarta
		In addition, they used the term Lower Egypt to refer to the northern delta area and the term Upper Egypt to refer to the communities along the river all the way south to Aswān.
		Other differences between the peoples in Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt include the nature of their architecture and the arrangements for burial of the dead, the latter perhaps signifying differing religious beliefs.
		It is possible that a center such as Hierakonpolis or Abydos, also in Upper Egypt, began to exert control over other settlements and that the unification of ancient Egypt was in reality the gradual growth of one center’s influence.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_461511156/Ancient_Egypt.html (2085 words)

	Egypt (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		Egypt is the land of the Nile and the pyramids.
		Egypt consists geographically of two halves, the northern being the Delta, and the southern Upper Egypt, between Cairo and the First Cataract.
		One of the later kings of the dynasty, Amenophis IV., or Khu-n-Aten, endeavoured to supplant the ancient state religion of Egypt by a new faith derived from Asia, which was a sort of pantheistic monotheism, the one supreme god being adored under the image of the solar disk.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/egypt.html (1561 words)

	Upper Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Egypt is a country made up of two separate land areas: Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.
		"Upper" is land upstream, or to the south and "Lower" is land downstream, or to the north.
		Upper Egypt is a narrow strip of land that extends from the cataract boundaries of modern-day Aswan to an area south of modern-day Cairo.
	www.website1.com /odyssey/week1/UpperEgypt.html (173 words)

	Geography of Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Egypt is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, by Sudan to the south, by the Red Sea and Israel on the east, and by Libya on the west.
		Upper Egypt is land upstream, or to the south and Lower Egypt is land downstream, or to the north.
		Upper Egypt is known as Southern Egypt because it is upstream, closer to the source of the Nile.
	www.website1.com /odyssey/week1/egygeo.html (389 words)

	The Nomes of Upper Egypt
		The labelling of "upper" and "lower" seems counterintuitive, with Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north, but in fact relates to the Nile which flows from the highlands of East Africa (upstream) to the Mediterranean Sea (downstream).
		Upper Egypt was known as Ta-Shemau and was divided into twenty-two areas called Nomes.
		Upper Egypt was associated with the lotus flower but was also represented by the sedge reed, which is referenced in the Pharaoh's Prenomen which begins with the epithet "he of the sedge and bee" (meaning he of Upper and Lower Egypt).
	www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk /nomesupper.html (407 words)

	Virtual-Egypt - The Egyptian People's Papyrus
		In Upper Egypt, around Elephantine, Anuket was worshipped as the companion (generally the daughter) of Khnum and Sati.
		Upper Egyptian patron goddess, represented as a vulture in iconography, and often part of the crown of the pharaoh, along with her Lower Egyptian counterpart Edjo.
		From earliest times in Egypt the pharaohs were worshipped as gods: the son of Ra, the son of Horus, the son of Amen, etc. depending upon what period of Egyptian history and what part of the country is being considered.
	www.virtual-egypt.com /newhtml/gods (4159 words)

	The Two Lands: Archaic Egypt
		Of all the kings of Egypt, Narmer is among the most legendary; for according to Egyptians, he united the two parts of Egypt and became the first king of the Two Lands, Upper and Lower Egypt.
		The symbol of this unification are the two crowns of Egypt, the white crown (Upper Egypt) and the red crown (Lower Egypt); these crowns would be combined to form the single crown of the king.
		The early kings of Archaic Egypt had to yearly prove that they were physically capable of ruling Egypt in a festival called the Sed ("slaughter," "slaying") festival.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/EGYPT/TWOLANDS.HTM (688 words)

	Upper and Lower Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While the labelling of "upper" and "lower" might seem counterintuitive, with Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north on modern maps, the terminology derives from the flow of the Nile from the highlands of East Africa (upstream) to the Mediterranean Sea (downstream).
		Upper Egypt was known as Ta Shemau which means "the land of reed." It was divided into twenty-two districts called nomes.
		The patron goddess of the Ancient Upper Egypt is Nekhbet and its capital Nekhen (Hierakonpolis).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Upper_Egypt (603 words)

	ZAWAJ.COM: Wedding Customs Around the World
		Upper Egypt occupies more than half of Egypt's territory, stretching from Beni Suif south of Giza to Aswan in the south.
		Because Upper Egypt is located far in the south, away from external influences, people were rarely mixed with other foreign nationalities.
		Because the weather in Upper Egypt is quiet nice in winter time, people come from all over the world to enjoy it, in addition, to see the Pharaoh's monuments which are plenty in Upper Egypt.
	www.zawaj.com /weddingways/upper_egypt.html (1114 words)

	Ethnologue report for Egypt
		It is an amalgam of Delta Arabic and Middle Egypt Arabic, with borrowings from literary Arabic.
		The Middle Egypt dialect is in Bani Sweef, Fayyuum, and Gizeh.
		Upper Egypt dialect is from Asyuut to Edfu and south.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Egypt (411 words)

	Fair Trade Egypt - Upper Egypt
		Upper Egypt also traded with nomads, as it was part of a desert caravan route that originated in neighboring Sudan.
		Not to be outdone by their exceptional heritage, artisans from Upper Egypt have brought us the equally legendary natural cotton and linen fabrics for thousands of years now.
		Today, Upper Egypt is also home to Nubian populations who migrated to Aswan, where they settled and maintained their art and customs, including the production of their unique artisan goods, like their kaleidoscopic baskets.
	www.fairtradeegypt.org /governatesview.asp?key=8 (308 words)

	Egyptian Mythology
		From time immemorial Egypt has been known as the country of two lands: The desertlike Upper Egypt, or the Red Land, and Lower Egypt, or the Black Land, where the soil is fertile.
		In ancient Egypt the tendency was toward unity and stasis, not confrontation and tension.
		He made Seth the king of Upper Egypt in the land of Upper Egypt, up to the place in which he was born, which is Su.
	nefertiti.iwebland.com /egyptian_mythology.htm (1357 words)

	Ancient Egypt
		Wadjet (Wadjyt, Wadjit, Uto, Uatchet, Edjo) was the predynastic cobra goddess of Lower Egypt, a goddess originally of a city who grew to become the goddess of Lower Egypt, took the title 'The Eye of Ra', and one of the nebty (the 'two ladies') of the pharaoh.
		She was worshiped as a goddess as well as being the personification of the north, the cobra goddess who was one half of a manifestation of the idea of duality that was a basis of ma'at "which the goddess Wadjet worketh".
		Thus, we see that in Lower Egypt the priests taught far less worthy views of their gods than had been formerly held in Upper Egypt; and it is of the first importance to remark that the worse religion belonged to the less civilised people.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/gerzean_culture.htm (2859 words)

	Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Egypt was an Augustan province so the governors were appointed directly by the Emperor rather than by the traditional Senatorial lottery.
		Because of the importance of Egypt as the Empire's breadbasket, by law the governor of Egypt could not be of the Senatorial class (it was feared that consolidating too much power in a Senator invited revolt).
		During much of the period when power in Egypt was centered on the Delta (Lower Egypt), the southern part of the country (Upper Egypt) was ruled by a series of viziers.
	www.hostkingdom.net /egypt.html (2776 words)

	Egypt
		To the north of Egypt is the Mediterranean Sea.
		The kingdom in Lower Egypt was called the red crown and the one in Upper Egypt was known as the white crown.
		The front is the rounded crown of Upper Egypt and the flat high backed portion is the crown of Lower Egypt.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0210200/ancient_egypt/egyptintro.htm (326 words)

	Egypt - Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In addition, they used the term Lower Egypt to refer to the northern delta area and the term Upper Egypt to refer to the communities along the river all the way south to Aswan.
		Moreover, Egypt had to be at peace with its closest foreign neighbors to provide the necessary concentration for this work.
		At its zenith, Egypt under the 18th Dynasty controlled an area that extended south into what is now Sudan and east into the Middle East.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/egypt/anceg.htm (4612 words)

	EGYPT
		Since the Nile flows from the south to the north the area of the delta is called Lower Egypt, and the narrow, five-hundred mile stretch from the first cataract at Aswan to the delta is known as Upper Egypt.
		There is a tall, conical, white crown which signifies overlordship of Upper Egypt, and a red, flat-topped crown with a projection at the back and a long, curling feather toward the front, which signifies the overlordship of Lower Egypt.
		Egypt was a land of many gods, but since the capital was located at Thebes, Amon-Ra, the god of Thebes had risen to a position of pre-eminence.
	www.worldhistory1a.homestead.com /EGYPT.html (6970 words)

	Ancient Egypt
		Certainly the predynastic inhabitants of Upper Egypt worshipped a composite animal as the cult object of the god Set, and the reverencing of the ram or goat, which was common in all periods of Egyptian religion, had its origin at this time.
		Therefore, Amenhotep IV announced that Amon and all the other gods of Egypt, along with their ceremonies, were merely vulgar and empty idolatry and that such worship was now to be forbidden.
		Then he moved the capital city of Egypt from Thebes and constructed a new capital at Akhetaton (the City of Aton), because he believed Thebes was unclean due to all its past idolatry.
	www.theology.edu /egypt1.htm (6703 words)

	The Ancient Egypt Site - The Royal Titulary
		Both goddesses are the deified personification of Upper- and Lower-Egypt respectively, and as such, the Nebti-name denotes the king as "the one of Nekhbet (Upper-Egypt) and Uto (Lower-Egypt)", i.e.
		The Nebti-name of the Horus Netjerikhet is combined with the title "King of Upper and Lower Egypt" (later to become the introduction title of the prenomen) on the statue found in the Serdab of his mortuary complex at Saqqara.
		The systematic presence of the name of Re in the prenomen indicates that the prenomen was given to the king when he ascended the throne and that it put the king in a narrow relationship with the universal solar god Re.
	www.ancient-egypt.org /language/titulary/index.html (1916 words)

	Ancient Egypt Online
		The Ancient Egyptians did not call their home "Egypt" (that name is based on the Greek pronunciation of the name of Ptah´s temple in Memphis - "Hwt-ka-Ptah"), instead they referred to it as Kemet (or Kem - the fl land) or Ta Mery (the beautiful land).
		The division bewteen upper and lower Egypt was retained after the unification of the kingdom in the Pre-dynastic Period and the pharaoh was often known as the King of Upper and Lower Egypt.
		This concept of duality is a constantly reoccuring feature of the Egyptian civilisation and was echoed in the pairing of different gods and goddesses to represent upper and lower egypt.
	www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk (253 words)

	.:Egypt Melody: Holidays in Egypt
		Ancient Egypt's religion was a matter of diving profusion and confusion.
		His tomb in the valley of the King's is a little disappointing, but the funerary temple he built to his own memory at the edge of the cultivated and remains a stupendous architectural achievement.
		Thut-mose then had a brilliant reign lasting until 1450 B.C. he temple of Hatshepsut is unique in all Egypt, being built as a series of terraces on a grand scale, with stark colonnades blending in with the grooved mountainside which rises behind the temple.
	www.egyptmelody.com /egypt_info4.htm (3331 words)

	The Ancient Egypt Site - 1st Dynasty
		The same tradition has credited Menes with many deeds, among them the conquest of the Nile delta (Lower Egypt) thus unifying Upper and Lower Egypt; the founding of Memphis as the united country's new capital; the building of dams and the founding of many new cults and temples.
		Indeed, Narmer is shown wearing the White Crown, traditionally associated with Upper Egypt, while striking down an enemy identified as living in the marsh-lands (image to the left).
		A pot-shard found at Naqada in Upper Egypt and dated several generations before the reign of Narmer bears the representation of the Red Crown.
	www.ancient-egypt.org /history/01_03/01.html (2169 words)

	Egypt
		Egypt surface is effected with the contrary wind from the Mediterranean sea in Winter, and the northern wind coming from Europe in Summer, the yearly average temperature is 25°C and the precipitation is ranges from 200-250 mm in the north coast and decrease in the south direction.
		Horticulture crops grown under greenhouses (vegetable crops, ornamentals) are concentrated in the delta region and in the southern part of delta, strawberry growing is concentrated on the sandy soils in Sinai and Ismailia and on the clay soils in Kalyobia.
		Fruit, mainly pear and apple are grown in dessert road and Sinai, Grape in upper Egypt, Mango in Delta and upper Egypt and Cantaloupe in Sinai and east Delta.
	www.hridir.org /countries/egypt/index.htm (457 words)

	Amazon.com: Upper Egypt: Identity and Change: Books: Nicholas S. Hopkins,Reem Saad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Upper Egypt (the Sa'id) is often portrayed as a source of disruption and unpredictability in the broader Egyptian system.
		Upper Egypt: Identity and Change corrects that image by laying out the order in the meaningful life of Upper Egyptians.
		That order is based on a strong sense of regional identity including also religious and family identity, and on the political, economic, religious, and family structures that provide the context for action by the people of this region.
	www.amazon.com /Upper-Egypt-Identity-Nicholas-Hopkins/dp/9774248643 (748 words)

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		It established the basis of authority for the new constitution that was to follow.
		It showed a change in orientation from the nationalist goals of the original revolution and emphasized that Egypt was an Arab nation based on Islamic principles.
		By this year, Egypt was seen as the leading Arab nation and the Arab people looked to Egypt for leadership.
	www.lycos.com /info/nasser--upper-egypt.html (521 words)

	Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods
		An imperial official bearing the title of "high priest of Alexandria and of Upper Egypt" was invested with supreme authority over all the religious establishments.
		Firstly goddess of the sky and then goddess of love and rejoicing, the equivalent of the Greek Aphrodite, a foremost divinity in the area known to the Egyptians as Iunet Tantere, and to the Greeks and Romans as Tenyri which was the capital of the 6th nome of Upper Egypt during the Ptolemies' era.
	whc.unesco.org /en/tentativelists/1824 (2689 words)

	Florance, Nile Cruise, Upper Egypt Tours
		A marble stairway leads you to the upper floor, where the cabins are located.
		Egypt is not simply renowned for the its monuments.
		Our purification system is the best on the Nile, taking in water from the river and passing it through two sand filters, two carbon filters, an ultra-violet filter, and a microbiology filter to give you pure, clean water.
	www.goegypt.org /aboutegy/cruises/florance.htm (645 words)

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