MEMPHIS ANCIENT EGYPT ENCYCLOPDIA BRITANNICA LOG IN JOIN IN THE NEWS SPOTLIGHT LISTS THIS DAY SEARCH CLICK HERE TO SEARCH WRITTEN BY LAST ARTICLE ALTERNATIVE TITLES MANFISH WHITE WALLS RELATED TOPICS WORLD HERITAGE SITE PRESIDENTS OF OF CITIES TOWNS AFRICA CAPITAL EGYPTIAN HISTORY SOUTH THE NILE RIVER THE WEST BANK MILES MODERN THE ANCIENT SITE NECROPOLISES FAMOUS PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT NORTH PYRAMID FIELDS ARCHAEOLOGICAL ZONE DESIGNATED UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE STATUE OF RAMSES II ONCE THE GREAT TEMPLE OF PTAH EARLY DYNASTIC ACCEPTED UNITED PREHISTORIC KINGDOMS UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT THE ORIGINAL NAME THE WHITE TERM THE KINGS THE MODERN GREEK VERSION THE EGYPTIAN NEARBY KING PEPI GEOGRAPHIC THE KA RENDERED AIGYPTOS THE COUNTRY THE LOCAL GOD PATRON CREATOR GOD EGYPTIAN DOCUMENT MEMPHITE THEOLOGY PTAH HUMANS THE POWER HEART IN THE HEART THE CREATOR INTO EXISTENCE THE DIVINE UTTERANCE ITSELF FREEDOM FROM CONVENTIONAL PHYSICAL CREATIVE DEGREE TEXT VIRTUALLY UNIQUE PHILOSOPHICAL SOPHISTICATION THE PRIESTS HOLDING EMBLEMS BRONZE STATUETTE COURTESY THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM SIMILAR TOPICS VALLEY OF THE KINGS ABU SIMBEL THEBES PYRAMIDS OF GIZA TELL ABYDOS NAUKRATIS PER RAMESSU PROMINENCE PERIODS THE EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD OLD KINGDOM THE DESERT TOMBS DYNASTIES 2650 BCE ROYAL PRIVATE POWERFUL COURTIERS REACHED PREEMINENCE 3RD DYNASTY HISTORIAN MANETHO HUGE CONFIRM DJOSER SECOND KING THE BUILDER STEP PYRAMID FOUNDATION STONE BUILDING IMHOTEP ARCHITECT ADVISER ARCHITECTURAL REPUTATION WISE MAN PHYSICIAN TIMES DEIFICATION IDENTIFICATION WITH THE GREEK ASCLEPIUS STEP PYRAMID OF DJOSER REMAINS RUINED PYRAMIDS ATTRIBUTED KING OF 4TH DYNASTY SNEFRU GREAT PYRAMIDS OF GIZA BELONG TO KHAFRE MENKAURE THE GREAT SPHINX GIZA DATES THE LAST SHEPSESKAF TOMB OBLONG STRUCTURE FIRAWN VIEW THE SPHINX THE GREAT PYRAMID KHUFU RISING THE BACKGROUND MAKSYM STORIES IN THE NEWS ANIMALS SEA OTTERS TOOL USE DATE THOUSANDS MILLIONS SOCIETY HURRICANES TYPHOONS THE LEGACY ORDER JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT SCIENCE PLUTO THE ROYAL OFFICIALS THE KING LIFETIME BEAUTIFUL RELIEFS CERTAIN DAILY LIFE THUS GIVE IDEA THE ROYAL COURT LITTLE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS SOURCE OF INFORMATION EXCEPTION THE GENERAL RULE LOSS DESTRUCTION THE HIDDEN QUEEN HETEPHERES THE MOTHER DISCOVERED THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA THE QUEENS BODY MISSING FUNERARY EQUIPMENT FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP TESTIFY SPLENDID THE HIGH DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARTS CRAFTS BELIEVED SCHOLARS THE OLD KINGDOM COURT PEAK CLASSIC CULTURE NEVER YOUR GEOGRAPHY FACT 5TH DYNASTY BUILD SMALLER THAN THE PYRAMID TEMPLES CAUSEWAYS DECORATED FINE DYNASTY PROBABLY MARKED DECLINE INFLUENCE RISE SUN CULT THE MAJOR MONUMENTS THE PYRAMIDS THE SUN 6TH DYNASTY FIELD SIZE WORKMANSHIP THAT TIME THE INFLUENCE CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT PROVINCIAL CITIES NUMBER AWAY PROCESS DECENTRALIZATION FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD INTERNAL MANETHOS SHORT PERIOD CONTROL PRINCES SOON AFTER THE END CONNECT FACEBOOK TWITTER YOUTUBE INSTAGRAM PINTEREST THE MIDDLE KINGDOM OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF 12TH DYNASTY ENTRANCE MONARCHS THE MAJORITY MIDDLE KINGDOM PREDOMINANT ARTISTIC SEEM RULER POLITICAL SOCIAL CHAOS THE 13TH SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD PRESENCE ASIAN HYKSOS THE HYKSOS WHOM SALITIS RULED INSCRIPTIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE THE ASSUMPTION NORTHERN EGYPT GENERALLY THE NILE DELTA LEFT KAMOSE INITIATED RECONQUEST DESCRIBE HOLDINGS ELEPHANTINE HERMOPOLIS MAGNA NOTE PASS EXPULSION 18TH DYNASTY UPPER EGYPT CLAIM NEW KINGDOM THE ACTUAL POLITICAL CAPITAL RELIGIOUS HYPOTHESIS IMPOSSIBLE RIGIDITY TERMS EGYPTIAN CULTURE QUIZ VENUS TECHNOLOGY WEAPONS ARTS CLOSING LINES WEIRD FACTS IMPORTANCE EXTENT THE CORONATION CEREMONIES TRADITIONALLY ENACTED AS WAS JUBILEE RITUAL REENACTMENT UNIFICATION ONE TIME SEEMS PRINCIPAL THE CROWN PRINCE INSCRIPTIONS MENTION HUNTING PARTIES IN THE DESERT AMENHOTEP II THE OFFICE HIGH PRIEST THUTMOSE IV DETAIL GRAY GRANITE 15TH CENTURY BCE THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM THE GOD AMON GODS THE PANTHEON REBUILT CHAPELS THUTMOSE AMENHOTEP III AMENHOTEP REFORMER AKHENATON TEMPLE HANDSOME DATING MEMPHITE NECROPOLIS THE EXISTENCE INCREASINGLY COSMOPOLITAN CHARACTER FOREIGN TRAVEL ON THE NILE CONNECTED COMMERCIAL QUARTERS PRISONERS OF WAR SECTION THE FIELD THE HITTITES CARIANS TRENDING TOPICS JIM CROW LAW OPIUM WARS VIETNAM WAR KOREAN WAR BLACK PANTHER PARTY WORLD WAR II COLD WAR UNITED STATES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1860 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917 19TH DYNASTY ROYAL RESIDENCE BUILDING MATERIALS BLOCKS STRUCTURES IN THE CITY RAMSES II SERAPEUM DEDICATED TO THE CULT BEGUN THE SON RAMSES HIGH PRIEST OF PTAH PRISONERS LIMESTONE LOUIS IMAGE THE END 20TH DYNASTY THE UNITED KINGDOM BREAK DOWN ONCE AGAIN TANIS PALACE POPULARITY APIS CULT ENLARGEMENT 8TH CENTURY BCE NUBIAN PIYE RESTORED NUBIA THE SOUTH CULTURAL CENTURIES INSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN SIEGE FORTIFIED WALLS BROTHER KUSHITE ASSYRIANS INVADED THE ASSYRIAN ESARHADDON REFER TO THE SIEGE KING OF EGYPT PHARAOH IN 69 DEATH TAHARQA DRIVEN OUT OF THE CITY ASHURBANIPA