New York. Metropolitan musuem of art · New York [The Gilliss press · leaf 76
ethrone of Egypt could be considered more than anempty boast; and we even find them seeking to extendtheir territory southward into Nubia. They left butfew monuments, however, and their hold over thenorthern parts of Egypt at any rate must have been ofa somewhat precarious nature. Amenemhat, first… … A HANDBOOK OF THE EGYPTIAN ROOMS nobles to the north, and to this end moved the royalresidence and seat of government from Thebes to aplace not far south of the old traditional capital, Mem-phis, where he founded a city called Ithtowe, theCaptor of the Two Lands. From his new centerAmenemhat was…
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