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Memphis


City towns in ancient Egypt and the first capital of a unified Egypt , believed to be constructed during the reign of King " Narmer"
I knew the names of the three major , namely:
1 - aspects Ag ( Neighbor White )
2 - from the turnoff (fixed and beautiful )
3 - Mitt Rhein ( by rams )
She described a lot of qualities and continued capital of Egypt since the first family and even the eighth and one of them went out the theories of creation of the universe ( the theory of Petah prominent land owner ) and the famous Trinity Abdul ( Petah - Sekhmet - Nefertum )
Associated with the name of months and the largest cemeteries Egypt ( cemetery Memphis) and it sought the kings of Egypt to leave the impact to perpetuate their memory
Alexander the Great had settled and where the mummy for a year or more , waiting for the preparation of his tomb in Alexandria
Most of the Ptolemaic kings prefer to be the name of her God Ptah part of their names , including the statue of Ramses II came out , which boasts its field of Ramses and his visitors and love the Greeks called Vosmoha " Memphis " and fired by the descendants of the Greeks in the Western world the names of some towns
And a home run , met priests in 196 BC. M. to record thanks to King Ptolemy V in recognition of heaped on them and on their temples and registered their decision hieroglyphs and demotic and Greek , a decision which had a record dozens of copies and willing fortunate to find the French campaign in 1799 in Rosetta on this stone , which unzip symbols Bdoalm Egyptology
Trace Memphis ( now known as Mitt hostage ) Center Badrasheen Although the city remained throughout ancient Egyptian history occupy a prominent place , but it entered in some periods in the circle of oblivion and hit by urban sprawl and agricultural and human messes
But one can not imagine that this city and the importance of this long history was left with only the ruins of some of the installations are scattered here and there
Perhaps some blows foreign occupation of Egypt Alkadina may hit Memphis injuries directly occupation of the King " Bankhy " (one of the kings of the kingdom of plants in Sudan old ) and the control of the Assyrians of the city at the hands of " capturing Hdon " and then " Assyria Banyal " led to the destruction and looting of the city and then they knock-on the hands of the Persian king , " Cambyses ," which ravaged the city and killed the priests of the god Ptah, and even the killing of the Apis bull
In spite of that the city has regained her breath in the Ptolemaic period and in the early Roman era , but the decree issued by the Roman Emperor " Theodsius " vandalized temples and smashing statues of gods have been around the city to rubble
In the following centuries the city became navigate Stones facilities to pay tribute to their other facilities for other purposes
City included a group of temples dedicated to the god " Ptah, " and the rest of the Trinity , including the famous temple , which is known as the " erosion Kaptah "
Leaving of these temples , only the ruins of the Temple of Ptah the Great , who was featuring the statue standing now in the field of Ramses of King Ramses II built this temple in the era of " Ramses II" and added him King " Merneptah " and the kings of the others, and there is another temple was also constructed in the reign of the same kings and it includes compartment constructed in the reign of King Seti the First
The city is home to a collection of palaces , one of the king " Merneptah " and the second to the king, " Uah Ip Ra " ( La Presse ) from Family 26 and still the ruins of the city includes the huge statue lying and carved in rose granite , which is a verse in the art of sculpture in ancient Egypt and a group of statues standing bear the name " Ramses II" , but after careful consideration it turns out to belong to King
" Snosert first " Family of Kings 12
The area includes also the second largest sphinx after the statue of Giza is carved from alabaster stone because of the modern state and there is a panel of the reign of King " La Presse "
And the effects of the region Temple embalming , which was dedicated to the embalming Apis bull before burial in Sarabium Saqqara and dating the temple to the family of 26 still includes some tables and utensils embalming and to the south of the Temple of mummification found the tomb of Amir " Chacang " of the family 22 were also found on the cemetery of the Central State In one of the hills region found the ruins of the temple of Hathor was built in the family 19

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