Kom El Ahmar is a village and an archeological site in South Egypt, about 90km southward Luxor. The Ancient Egyptian name of the village was 'Nekhen' and its Greek name was 'Hierakonpolis' (the City of the Falcon). Nekhen was the capital of Upper Egypt before the unification of the country and the building of Memphis.
Around 4000 BC, Nekhen was a prehistoric settlement in which local hunters gathered in the wake of the change of climate seeking a new sedentary life where they began farming and herding. By 3500, Nekhen became a huge city that extended 2 kilometers along the River with a population of almost 7500 inhabitants. More than 4000 flint tools–such as scrapers, micro drills, bifacial knives, serrated sickle blades, crescent drills– were found there.
After making Memphis as the...
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