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	Map of Lower Egypt  Map of sites in Lower Egypt (Athena Review Image Archive).  .
	Lower Egypt includes the Nile Delta, which extends from Cairo to the mouth of the Nile near Alexandria. An inscribed tablet from the Ptolemaic era found in 1799 at the mouth of the Nile, the Rosetta stone, led to the early 19th century decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, beginning the historic study of Egyptology. Lower Egypt also includes the largest pyramid complexes in Egypt, located at Giza (near Memphis), and Saqqara. These, and numeous tomb complexes around the pyramids, date mainly from the earliest Dynasties (ca. 3000-2400 BC). Lower Egypt also includes many settlements from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (330 BC-AD 400) in the Nile Delta region, including Tanis, Bubastis, and Naukratis. From the same period were many towns in the Fayum Region west of the Nile between Saqqara and Oxyrhynchus. Towns with identified papyrus documents from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods are shown in red on the map (Grenfell et al. 1900). ./
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