Memphis may be considered Egypt's Atlantis (Image: De Agostini via Getty Images) ... It was established around 3100 BC under the rule of the Pharaoh Menes, also known as Narmer.

Pharaoh Shabaka, son of Kashta, Piye’s brother and successor moved the royal residence to Memphis in upper Egypt. ... Tantamani 664 – 657 BCE (Last Pharaoh of the 25th Dynasty) ...

Inscribed as a World Heritage Site in as early as 1979, this open-air museum city, founded in about 3100 BC, offers a glimpse of its glorious past as the capital of ancient Egypt during the Old ...

Memphis, founded around 3,100 B.C., was home to Menes, the king who united Upper and Lower Egypt. The building was once part of Memphis, Egypt's ancient capital. (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities) ...

Statue of Ramases II in Memphis Museum in Egypt. ... around 5,200 years ago by the first Dynasty Pharaoh Menes ... at the mouth of the Nile Delta and held the royal palaces of the Pharaohs.

Five thousand years ago in North Africa, an ambitious king, known today as Narmer, unified two lands into the world's first great territorial state—Egypt. Founder of a dynastySurveying his ...

SAQQARA, Egypt -- Egyptian archaeologists unveiled on Thursday a 4,000-year-old "missing pyramid" that is believed to have been discovered by an archaeologist almost 200 years ago and never seen ...

Egypt’s first laws emerged when the Upper and Lower kingdoms were unified, according to tradition, under King Menes around 2950 B.C. From then on, different pharaohs would bring their own ...

Egypt showcased an ancient tomb structure recently that belonged to the cemetery complex of Pharaoh Djoser, a ruler who lived more than 4,500 years ago, following extensive restorations of the ...

In Egypt lies the site of an ancient lost city and its very own Atlantis, a place once thriving now covered by desert sand. Memphis is around 11 miles south of Cairo and was once the very first ...