The Pharaonic King Narmer is known by another name, King Mina, the king of united Egypt, who included Upper Egypt "the Upper Egypt", and Lower "The Lower Egypt" in one central ownership and established the first ancient Egyptian dynasty.
Manetho, an Egyptian historian of the third century BC, referred to him as Menes, and the Greek historian Herodotus in the fifth century BC referred to him as Min. Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt, according to the British Encyclopedia Britannica.
Narmer also appears on a slate plaque (a decorative stone crushed with cosmetics) wearing alternately the red and white crowns of Lower and Upper Egypt, a combination symbolizing his unification of the two countries, showing him victorious over his enemies, according to Manetho, who ruled Menes for 62 years.
The great doctor and historian Salim Hassan says, according to what he mentioned in his encyclopedia Ancient Egypt, that it seems that the kings of the first and second dynasties did not take “Memphis” or Memphis as the capital of their king, and they never thought of transferring the headquarters of their king to it, so it is possible that Memphis was never The capital of the United Kingdom, and it seems that the role it played in the country’s history was less important than that, as it was no more than a stronghold of the country in the north, that is, it was a fortified castle. As for the kings, they continued to reside in the far south, taking the town of “Nakhin” as their headquarters.
Therefore, the importance of Memphis was to supervise the countries of the delta, which were newly opened and annexed to the king of Upper Egypt. The proximity of Memphis to this newly annexed country had another importance, as it made it an easy center for its administration. There is no doubt that Memphis was for “Mina” and his successors an important war center to repel The raids of the advancing lubes from the western side of the delta, and these lubes had submitted after being defeated by a humiliating defeat, but the unification of the country had not taken place until after one of the successors of Mina had conquered the far southern part of Nubia, which is located between the chain and the first waterfall. It is called "Tasty", and it was This territory is outside the borders of the Egyptian kingdom "the Upper Egypt" throughout the pre-dynastic period.
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