A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Mediterranean

Sea

LOWER

EGYPT

Pe

Memphis

Thebes

Nekhen

Elephantine

SINAI

PENINSULA

UPPER

EGYPT

KUSH

WESTERN

DESERT

EASTERN

DESERT

Red Sea

Dead

Sea

Lake

Moeris

N

ile

Ri

ver

W

ih

et

N

ile

R

.

Bl

ue

N

ile

R.

0

0

150

150

Miles

Kilometers

75

75

Nile Delta

NUBIA

Fertile area

Cataract

Direction of

Nile River current

Map 13.1 Egypt.