NELC 062 Study Guide - Final Guide: Scorpion Macehead, Narmer Palette, First Intermediate Period Of Egypt

• School: UPenn
• Department: Near Eastern Languages & Civilization
• Course: NELC 062
• Professor: Josef Wegner

Document Summary

Site in the north western nile delta, site of the buto-maadi culture. Maadi: just south of modern cairo, a site excavated during the first half of the 20th century forms the second type site for predynastic buto-maadi culture. Maadi displays considerable connections with contemporary cultures of south levant. Nagada: site inu upper egypt which is the type-site for the upper/southern egyptian. Hierakonpolis: city of the hawk important upper egyptian city. Sit is sacred to the falcon god horus. Hierakonpolis has provided lots of information on egypt during the late predynastic and the development of the upper egyptian nagada culture . Abydos: one of the important centers of the nagada culture, just north of the qena bend in the nile. The predynastic and early dynastic necropolis at abydos contains the first evidence for hieroglyphic writing. Saqqara: memphis developed from dynasty 1 as the new capital city. Saqqara served as the main necropolis for memphis.