This
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Drew Bear
Creators: M. Drew Bear
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Adam Prins, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Herbert Verreth, R. Talbert, Mark Depauw
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 14, 2024 09:30 AM
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History
The capital city of the first dynasties of ancient Egypt. While the precise location of the ancient site is unclear, mainstream scholarly thought places it near ancient Abydos and modern Girga.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/756659
26.341487, 31.841893
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 15142 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- None
- Naga ed-Deir located near This (4500 BC - 332 BC)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 77 F4 This
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: el-Birba
M. Drew Bear, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Adam Prins, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Herbert Verreth, R. Talbert, and Mark Depauw, 'This: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/756659> [accessed: 05 November 2024]
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