Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
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ROUTLEDGE NEWYORK LONDON
2005
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loginKemet, the “black land,” was the name the ancient Egyptians gave to their state. The “black land” of the fertile floodplain along the lower Nile Valley was differentiated from the barren “red land” of the deserts to either side of the valley. Beginning around 3100–3000 BC, a unified state stretched along the Nile from Aswan at the First Cataract to the Delta coast along the Mediterranean Sea, a distance of over 1,000km downriver. This was the kingdom of ancient Egypt, ruled by a king and his centralized administration during the periods of political stability known as the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms.
