Upper Egypt

Aswan ( , (, ), is a city in Southern Egypt, and is the capital of the Aswan Governorate. The city is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities, with its recorded history spanning over 2,600 years.

ancient Egyptian city

strip of land that spans from the first cataract at Aswan to Mephis latitudinally, and longitudinally along the Ro Henu corridor, the terrestrial gateway of the Mu-qed conduit

Nekhbet (; also spelt Nekhebet) is an early predynastic local goddess in Egyptian mythology, who was the patron of the city of Nekheb (her name meaning of Nekheb). Ultimately, she became the patron of Upper Egypt and one of the two patron deities (alongside Wadjet) for all of Ancient Egypt when it was unified.

culture in Upper Egypt during the Predynastic Era

cultural period in the history of predynastic Upper Egypt (Nagada I)

collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts

Hedjet () is the White Crown of pharaonic Upper Egypt. After the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, it was combined with the Deshret, the Red Crown of Lower Egypt, to form the Pschent, the double crown of Egypt. The symbol sometimes used for the White Crown was the vulture goddess Nekhbet shown next to the head of the cobra goddess Wadjet, the uraeus on the Pschent.

variety of Arabic spoken by the Ṣa‘īdi people south of Cairo, Egypt to the border of Sudan

ancient city in Egypt

Egyptian Predynastic culture from c. 4500 BC

thumb|250px|Group of Ghawazi dancers (c. 1880) Ghawazi (also ghawazee) () are female dancers who danced in return for money in public settings, and the streets and most of them originally came from Upper Egypt. There were male dancers as well, including men who performed movements associated with women and who were pejoratively called khawal.

The Hawwara () is a Berber tribal confederation in the Maghreb, primarily in Tripolitania, with descendants in Upper Egypt and Sudan. Hawwara are amongst the most prominent tribes in Upper Egypt, with branches found mainly in Qena. They are also found in Morocco and Algeria. In Sudan, they are labelled as Hawwaweer () (plural of Hawwara), and have a significant political presence.

ethnic group

Title held by the heir apparent of the Egyptian throne

thumb|300px|right|A map of the Generations of Noah, placing the "Pathrusim" in [[Upper Egypt.]]

Iushenshen was an ancient Egyptian town in the Coptic nome in Upper Egypt. It is a few times mentioned in Ancient Egyptian sources. According to the Ramesside Onomastica the place was located south of Coptos. south of Coptos there is the modern town called Khozam where ancient monuments have been found, and it seems possible that Khozam was ancient Iushenshen. Near Khozam were excavated several cemeteries with some of them dating back to the Badarian Period (about 4000 BC). Near Khozam the false door of the local governor User and the false door of the overseer of Upper Egypt Tjauti were also