• The Nile Level Texts (or Nile Quay Texts) are inscribed on the cult terrace (the so-called "quay") at the temple of Karnak, in Thebes, Egypt. This cult...
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    over this great city is only first documented by two separate Year 12 Nile Level Texts, which means that Harsiese had died by this time. If Harsiese was already...
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    or another local Theban king, challenged his power there. Several Nile Level Texts at Thebes mention two sons of Osorkon I—namely, the High Priests of...
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    The Nile Delta (Arabic: دلتا النيل, Delta an-Nīl or simply الدلتا, ad-Delta) is the delta formed in Lower Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains...
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    and Persia all ruled Egypt with a single king on the throne. Karnak Nile Level Texts No. 6 and 7, dated to Year 5 and 6 of Osorkon III, calls his mother...
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    The Nile (also known as the Nile River or River Nile) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile...
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    new unknown ruler, was proposed by G. Broekman in a paper based on Nile Level Text No. 3 which is dated to Year 5 of a Theban king who ruled after Osorkon...
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    away) are the inundation levels for several kings of the Third Intermediate Period, collectively known as the Nile Level Texts. The cult terrace is often...
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    The flooding of the Nile (commonly referred to as the Inundation) and its silt deposition was a natural cycle first attested in Ancient Egypt. It was of...
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  • between five and twenty-five years. He is poorly attested (Karnak Nile Level Text NLT 3 of year 5 and NLT 45 of year 17, 18 or 25), and his existence...
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  • the 23rd Dynasty. The first attestation of King Iuput I comes from a Nile Level Text (no. 26), in which Year 16 of King Pedubast-meryamun is explicitly...
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    longer reign for Osorkon II. Recently, it has been demonstrated that Nile Level Text 14 (dated to Year 29 of an Usimare Setepenamun) belongs to Osorkon...
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    corresponding roughly to the level of the river bed of the Blue Nile. Counting from the ground level, the main gravity dam is 145 m (476 ft) tall, 1,780 m (5...
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    (mythology) - Nephthys - Neter-khertet - New Kingdom - Nile - Nile crocodile - Nile Delta - Nile Level Texts - Nile perch - Nilometer - Nilo-Saharan languages -...
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    Shebitku (category Articles containing Ancient Egyptian-language text)
    inscription in Nile Level Text Number 33 has been assumed to record a coregency between Shabaka and Shebitku among some scholars. This Nile text records Shebitku...
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    The Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is a species of tilapia, a cichlid occurring naturally in parts of Africa (such as its namesake Nile River) and...
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  • Nikaiankh II Nikaiankh I Nikare II Nikare Nikaure Nile Delta Nile Level Texts Nile mosaic of Palestrina Nile: An Ancient Egyptian Quest Nilometer Nilotic landscape...
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    Egyptian: ḥꜥpj) Also spelled Hapy was the god of the annual flooding of the Nile in ancient Egyptian religion. The flood deposited rich silt (fertile soil)...
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    was the province of Asyut. Iuwelot's name appears also on other two Nile Level Texts (no. 20 and 21), but the name and regnal year of the king in question...
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    Nile silt or Nile mud is a ceramic paste employed widely within Ancient Egyptian pottery manufacture, sourced from local Quaternary Nile sediments. Nile...
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    Smendes II. A scarcely attested High Priest, he is mainly known for some Nile Level Texts at Karnak where he is called High Priest of Amun and son of king Osorkon:...
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    Shoshenq III and his highest dated Year is his 23rd Year according to Nile Level Text No. 29. This year is equivalent to Year 31 of Shoshenq III of the Tanis...
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    Nile is an American death metal band from Greenville, South Carolina, formed in 1993. The band's current lineup consists of founding guitarist/vocalist...
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  • Philae temple complex (category Islands of the Nile)
    built below the pre-inundation level of the water, and rested on the granite which in this region forms the bed of the Nile. Here and there steps were hewn...
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    Atbarah River (redirect from Black Nile)
    عطبرة; transliterated: Nahr 'Atbarah), also referred to as the Red Nile and / or Black Nile, is a river in northeast Africa. It rises in northwest Ethiopia...
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    Geography of Egypt (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the World Factbook)
    There are nine governorates of Lower Egypt in the Nile Delta region, ten of Upper Egypt along the Nile river south from Cairo to Aswan, and five frontier...
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    Lake Tana (category Blue Nile)
    rainfall. The lake level has been regulated since the construction of the control weir where the lake discharges into the Blue Nile. This controls the...
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    Rosetta Stone (category Multilingual texts)
    the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. It was found there in July 1799 by French officer Pierre-François...
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    Lahun, a papyrus indicate that he ruled not long after Amenemhat III. The Nile Level Records were also inscribed for a limited number of rulers of the late...
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    Sudan. The Dinka mostly live along the Nile, from Mangalla-Bor to Renk, in the region of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile (two out of three provinces that were...
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