place

Memphis

Places

The old Egyptian capital near the Nile’s fork. Not Thebes as the southern seat, and not Giza as the plateau of tombs alone.

Egyptian religion

  • Memphis appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus’s Egyptian logos names Memphis among the great seats of the land and its temples. A named Memphis city in that traveler’s account, not Thebes and not a capital dump alone.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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