ancient city of Memphis

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ancient city archaeological site former national capital

The ancient city of Memphis was a major capital of early dynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt, serving as a political, religious, and commercial center near the Nile Delta.

Aliases (6)

Statements (57)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient city → archaeological site → former national capital →
ancientEgyptianName	Ineb-hedj → Men-nefer →
ArabicName	Manf →
associatedWithText	Shabaka Stone →
capitalOf	Early Dynastic Egypt → Egypt → Old Kingdom Egypt →
capitalPeriod	Early Dynastic Period → Old Kingdom → parts of Middle Kingdom → parts of New Kingdom →
chiefGod	Ptah →
country	Egypt →
culture	Ancient Egyptian civilization →
declineCause	rise of Alexandria →
declinePeriod	Late Period of Egypt →
floruit	3rd millennium BCE →
foundedBy	Menes → Narmer →
governorate	Giza Governorate →
GreekName	Memphis →
hasDeity	Nefertem → Ptah → Sekhmet →
hasNecropolis	Abu Sir → Dahshur → Giza → Saqqara →
hasNotableMonument	Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis → colossus of Ramesses II →
hasTemple	Great Temple of Ptah →
inception	early 3rd millennium BCE →
knownFor	administrative center of pharaonic state → crafts and workshops → statues and colossi of pharaohs →
locatedIn	Lower Egypt → Nile Delta region →
locatedNear	Giza Plateau → Saqqara necropolis → modern city of Cairo →
locatedOn	west bank of the Nile →
modernLocality	Mit Rahina →
partOf	Memphite region →
region	Africa →
religiousRole	center of the Memphite Theology →
significance	commercial center of ancient Egypt → political center of ancient Egypt → religious center of ancient Egypt →
strategicLocation	apex of the Nile Delta →
tradeRole	hub between Upper and Lower Egypt →
UNESCOInscriptionYear	1979 →
UNESCOSiteId	86 →
UNESCOSiteName	Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur →
UNESCOWorldHeritageSite	yes →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Manf ("Memphis (ancient Egypt)") →	ArabicNameOf
Saqqara necropolis ("Memphis, ancient capital of Egypt") →	associatedWithCity
Sahure ("Memphis (ancient Egypt)") →	capital
Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur →	contains
Mit Rahina museum area ("ancient Memphis") →	locatedNear
Memphis, Tennessee ("Memphis, Egypt") →	namedAfter
Abu Sir necropolis ("ancient Memphis") →	nearbySettlement
Great Temple of Ptah ("temple complex of Memphis") →	partOf