Memphis
Ancient capital of Egypt
Also known as Hut-ka-Ptah · Hekaptah · Memphis, Egypt · Man · Mint of Memphis
- Country
- Located in
- Area
- 155.16 ha
- Elevation
- 20 m
Overview
All data
63 statements · 16% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Capital of
- Old Kingdom of Egypt
- Egypt(-2707–-2216)
- Heritage designation
- part of UNESCO World Heritage Site(since 1979) official name: Site of Memphis · part of: Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
- Significant event
- Siege of Memphis(0639–0640)
- archaeological excavation(since 1820) participant: Giovanni Battista Caviglia, Charles Sloane
- Started
- 4th millennium BCE
On other databases
47 identifiers linking Memphis across the web's reference databases
- BHCL UUID64ff6545-f02c-4a61-8de8-635f22a3587e
- Biblissima authority IDQ27952
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID10176a
- Comic Vine ID4020-61655
- Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID21137
- Early Modern Letters Online location ID9f922248-ff18-43b0-9afb-78c32e240609
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Memphis-ancient-city-Egypt
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDmemphis-egypte
- FactGrid item IDQ535356
- FAST ID1897043
- Freebase ID/m/0ny25
- GeoNames ID352547
- GND ID4038589-9
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDmemfis-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0041854
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDMemfis
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)2203709
- Grove Art Online IDT056753
- Interlingual Index IDi83510
- J9U entity ID987007536899405171
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID10616
- Joconde location IDT84-4439
- KSW place ID92650
- Kulturenvanteri monument ID212757
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh91004888
- MANTO ID8253950
- Museum-digital place ID11486
- Mythoskop IDo80
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDgeo/023BF2F2-9C7D-4567-8139-10CBAE564A9A
- National Library of Ireland IDvtls001195284
- Nomisma IDmemphis
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3939572
- OpenStreetMap way ID653703867
- Oxford Classical Dictionary ID4087
- Pleiades ID736963
- ToposText place ID298313PMem
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia IDmenfi
- Trismegistos Geo ID1344
- VIAF cluster ID315170126
- Vici.org ID21493
- Vikidia article IDfr:Memphis_(Égypte)
- Wellcome Collection concept IDcrdu2s4x
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID08919578-n
- World Heritage Site ID86-001
- World History Encyclopedia IDMemphis_(Ancient_Egypt)
- Yale LUX IDplace/af62279f-74cd-4e31-9963-c7b45ad4d66a
- YSO ID508281