Naqada (city)
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Naqada (also Negade ) is a place in Egypt. Nearby are necropolises of the 1st Dynasty, the Late Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period. About 6 km north of Naqada are the remains of the ancient city of Nubt. This place ( ancient Egyptian also Nubet , Greek Ombo ) was the Upper Egyptian main place of worship of the deity Seth in ancient Egypt . The place is about 40 km north of Luxor on the west bank of the Nile . In the vicinity of the place, about 27 km north of Luxor, Flinders Petrie discovered in 1894 a necropolis with about 3,000 graves .
See also
literature
- Fekri A. Hassan: Nagada (Naqada). In: Kathryn A. Bard (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Archeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-18589-0 , pp. 555-57.
- Hermann A. Schlögl : Ancient Egypt: History and culture from the early days to Cleopatra . Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54988-8 , pp. 55-56.
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Coordinates: 25 ° 55 ' N , 32 ° 43' E