Thebes
| The ancient name for the city the Greeks called
Thebai was Waset, the Scepter nome, and it was the main city of the fourth
Upper Egyptian nome. It was close to Nubia and the eastern desert, with
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Hierakonpolis
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The ancient site of this city, called Nekhen by the Egyptians, its Greek name Hierakonpolis meaning ‘city of the falcon’, was long venerated by the ancient Egyptians as the early capital of the Kingdom of Upper Egypt.
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| El_Lahun |
The pyramid now called el-Lahun stands north of the modern town of that name and was built by Senusret II, c. 1895 BCE, during the period known as the Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
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Abydos
| Abydos,
or Abjdu, lies in the eight nome of Upper Egypt, about 300 miles south
of Cairo, on the western side of the Nile and about 9.5 miles from the
river.
It spreads over 5 square miles Map of Abydos, Egypt and contains
archaeological remains from all periods of ancient Egyptian history.
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Ancient Egypt History 
