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- Heracleopolis or Herakleopolis (Ancient Gr****: Ἡρακλεόπολις, Herakleópolis) or Herakleiopolis (Ἡρακλειούπολις) may refer to: Heracleopolis Magna in Upper...
- Lower Egypt. Herakleopolis became the prin****l city of Lower Egypt and was able to exercise its control over much of the region. Herakleopolis exerted such...
- Eighth Dynasty is extremely obscure. The takeover by the rulers of Herakleopolis was violent and is reflected in Manetho's description of Achthoes, the...
- "Nephthys, Foremost of the [Booths of] Herakleopolis". A "prophet of Nephthys" is indeed attested for the town of Herakleopolis in the 30th Dynasty. Nephthys was...
- for territorial control and political power. By 2160 BC, rulers in Herakleopolis controlled Lower Egypt in the north, while a rival clan based in Thebes...
- group title First Intermediate Period. The 9th Dynasty was founded at Herakleopolis Magna, and the 10th Dynasty continued there. At this time Egypt was...
- Tenth Dynasty, rival to Mentuhotep's Eleventh, ruled Lower Egypt from Herakleopolis. After the Herakleopolitan kings desecrated the sacred ancient royal...
- Dynastic Period or the Old Kingdom of Egypt. The precise founding date of Herakleopolis is not known, but an entry on the Palermo Stone reporting king Den's...
- his side. Tefnakht then sent his coalition army south and besieged Herakleopolis where its king Peftjauawybast and the local Nubian commanders appealed...
- Peftjauawybast: 318–9  or Peftjaubast was an ancient Egyptian ruler ("king") of Herakleopolis Magna during the 25th Dynasty. He was likely installed as governor of...