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  Upper and Lower Egypt -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lower Egypt was known to the (The title of the ancient Egyptian kings) Pharaohs as To-Mehu.
Lower Egypt's landscape is dominated by the Nile delta at Alexandria.
Upper Egypt is a narrow strip of land that extends from the cataract boundaries of modern-day Aswan to the area south of modern-day Cairo.
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 Encyclopedia: Upper and Lower Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
While the labelling of "upper" and "lower" might seem counterintuitive, with Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north, the terminology derives from the flow of the Nile from the highlands of East Africa (upstream) to the Mediterranean Sea (downstream).
Lower Egypt is to the north and is that part where the Nile Delta drains into the Mediterranean Sea.
The Middle Kingdom is a period in the history of ancient Egypt stretching from the establishment of the Eleventh dynasty to the end of the Fourteenth dynasty, roughly between 1986 BC and 1633 BC.
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 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.
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 Egypt (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Egypt is the land of the Nile and the pyramids.
The Fayyum was rescued for agriculture by the kings of the Twelfth Dynasty; and two obelisks were erected in front of the temple of the sun-god at On or Heliopolis (near Cairo), one of which is still standing.
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.
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 lower egypt and other egypt related information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A Comparison of Upper and Lower Egypt Lower Egypt Upper Egypt Lower Egypt is known as Northern Egypt because it is downriver along the Nile.
Lower Egypt, is the northern part of Egypt that goes along the great River Nile and includes the biggest two...
Lower Egypt (The Delta) At Cairo, the Nile spreads out over what was once a broad estuary that has been filled by riverine deposits to form a fertile delta about 250 kilometers wide at the seaward...
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 Egypt: Ancient Egyptian Royal Regalia, A Feature Tour Egypt Story
During the Early Dynastic period, the king of ancient Egypt already had much of the trappings of royal regalia familiar from later times, including the double crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt and various scepters.
A grave found at the Predynastic site of el-Omari in Lower Egypt contained the skeleton of a man buried with a wooden staff, and a fragmentary wooden staff, carved to resemble a bundle of reeds, was found in an early First Dynasty mastaba at Saqqara.
A sherd from a large vessel dated to late Naqada I, near the town of Nubt, the city of Set, has a representation in relief of the red crown, and on both the Narmer palette (one side) and macehead the king’s figure is shown wearing the red crown.
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 Encyclopedia article on Upper and Lower Egypt [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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The 'Black Soil' argument was used to disprove that Ancient Egypt was Negroid, and is still continued to labelled as a Caucasian civilization, despite evidence against this view.
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