This Proposed new capital of Egypt is yet to be formally named and is intended to relieve population pressures from the greater Cairo area.
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It is possible that the capital of Egypt since the early Middle Kingdom, Itjtawy was abandoned during or shortly after Ay's reign.
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When they reach Amarna, they discover the Emersons excavating the city which for a while was the capital of Egypt under the mysterious Akhenaten.
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For thousands of years, the capital of Egypt was moved with different cultures through multiple locations up and down the Nile, such as Mediterranean coast.
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To understand the story you have to set it in the right geopolitical context and know that the capital of Egypt in the 18th Dynasty is at Thebes.
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According to the plans, the city would become the new administrative and financial capital of Egypt, housing the main government departments and ministries, as well as foreign embassies.
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Together with 3 other Belgian photographers ( Zaza Bertrand, Bieke Depoorter and Harry Gruyaert ) he spent 8 weeks in Cairo, documenting the daily life of the capital of Egypt.
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In the capitals of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Iran and Iraq, thousands took to the streets to protest Israeli actions and U . S . support for them.
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Under King Djoser, the first king of the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, the royal capital of Egypt was moved to pyramids constructed at this time as pharaonic burial places.
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Such stelae are typical of the Amarna period in Ancient Egypt and are found particularly in the graves at Amarna, which was the capital of Egypt under Akhenaten, with the name Akhetaten.
