Nekhen
Ancient city · Egypt
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 25.097, 32.779
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: religious and political capital of Upper Egypt in Ancient Egypt
History
Nekhen, also known as Hierakonpolis was the religious and political capital of Upper Egypt at the end of prehistoric Egypt and probably also during the Early Dynastic Period.