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Memphis

First capital of a unified Egypt at the head of the Nile Delta, seat of the Old Kingdom pharaohs and centre of the cult of Ptah, whose Greek name for the city's temple - Hut-ka-Ptah - may be the root of the word 'Egypt' itself.

Dated events and their evidence

• 2,900 BCE mainstream
  traditional founding by Menes, unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt source
• 2,613 BCE mainstream
  capital of the Old Kingdom source

Where

29.8490° N, 31.2550° E

Sources

• https://www.britannica.com/place/Memphis-ancient-city-Egypt
• https://www.worldhistory.org/Memphis_(Ancient_Egypt)/

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