Elkab
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Oct 10, 2026
Thomas Freebairn SmithVOICE_ACTOR
I slept for exactly two hours, got up and dressed, donned a great coat, walked down the Avenue de l'Opera, and entered a side door of the Louvre.
Thomas Freebairn SmithVOICE_ACTOR
Once inside, and amid surroundings entirely familiar to me, I made my way immediately to the Chamber of Egyptian Relics, or more specifically, to the cabinet in that chamber which contained the El Kab collection of papyri.
Thomas Freebairn SmithVOICE_ACTOR
Drawing out the particular roll I wished, I placed it on a nearby table, sat down, began to study it, when I noticed one of the museum attendants who was polishing some brass work across the room.
Thomas Freebairn SmithVOICE_ACTOR
His face struck me as being curiously Egyptian.
B.J. HarrisonHOST
Here his researches upon the spectra of the metals had won him his fellowship in the Royal Society.
B.J. HarrisonHOST
But again he played the coquette with his subject, and after a year's absence from the laboratory he joined the Oriental Society and delivered a paper on the hieroglyphic and demotic inscriptions of El Kab, thus giving a crowning example both of the versatility and of the inconstancy of his talents.
B.J. HarrisonHOST
The most fickle of wooers, however, is apt to be caught at last, and so it was with John Vansittart Smith.
B.J. HarrisonHOST
The more he burrowed his way into Egyptology the more impressed he became by the vast field which it opened to the inquirer, and by the extreme importance of a subject which promised to throw a light upon the first germs of human civilization and the origin of the greater part of our arts and sciences.
Joann FletcherHOST
But what they both had in common was the astonishing fertility replenished every year by the miracle of the Nile.
Joann FletcherHOST
El Kab, located to the south of the Qena Bend, is one of Upper Egypt's earliest settlements.
Joann FletcherHOST
And while it may lack the wow factor of the pyramids, it's actually far more revealing to see traces of this amazing evolution.
Joann FletcherHOST
Because here we can see how a nomadic lifestyle was soon replaced by a settled social structure.
Heather MbyeNARRATOR
But it is from Egypt that the most revolutionary revelations have come.
Heather MbyeNARRATOR
At Abydos and Kham al-Amar, opposite El-Kab, monuments have been disinterred of the kings of the first and second dynasties, if not of even earlier princes, while at Nagada, north of Thebes, M. de Morgan has found a tomb which seems to have been that of Menes himself.
Heather MbyeNARRATOR
A new world of art has been opened out before us.
Heather MbyeNARRATOR
Even the hieroglyphic system of writing is as yet immature and strange.
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Heather MbyeNARRATOR
Horus of Hibonu swooped down upon the back of a gazelle like a hunting hawk.
Heather MbyeNARRATOR
Hathor of Dendera was a cow.
Heather MbyeNARRATOR
Bastet of Bubastis was a cat or a tigress, while Nekhabit of El-Kab was a great bald-headed vulture.
Heather MbyeNARRATOR
Hermopolis worshipped the ibis and cenocephalus of Thoth.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
A considerable part of his time was taken up in war, in the east against the Libyans in the regions of the oasis, in the Nile valley to the south of Aswan against the Nubians, on the isthmus of Suez and in the Syenatic peninsula against the Bedouin, frequently also in a civil war against some ambitious noble or some turbulent member of his own family.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
He traveled frequently from south to north and from north to south, leaving in every possible place marked traces of his visits, on the rocks of Elephantine and of the first cataract, on those of Sylsillus or of El Kab, and he appeared to his vassals as Tumu himself arisen among them to repress injustice and disorder.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
He restored or enlarged the monuments, regulated equitably the assessment of taxes and charges, settled or dismissed the lawsuits between one town and another concerning the appropriation of the water or the possession of certain territories, distributed fiefs which had fallen vacant among his faithful servants, and granted pensions to be paid out of the royal revenues.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
At length he re-entered Memphis or one of his usual residences, where fresh labors awaited him.
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Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
A troop of armed men stationed on this neck of land could command the navigable arm of the Nile, intercept trade with Nubia at their pleasure, and completely bar the valley to any army attempting to pass without having first obtained authority to do so.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
The advantages of this site do not seem to have been appreciated during the Memphite period, when the political life of Upper Egypt was but feeble.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
Elephantine, El Kab, and Coptos were at that period the principal cities of the country.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
Elephantine particularly, owing to its trade with the Sudan, and its constant communication with the peoples bordering the Red Sea, was daily increasing in importance.
Kyle AllenHOST
Raines had turned the late Pleistocene dunes into pasture that provided wild grains for the hunter-gatherers and browsing for their game.
Kyle AllenHOST
Most notable is the almost complete lack of settlements in the Egyptian Nile Valley, with the exception of El-Kab, which I would like to go there.
Kyle AllenHOST
The dearth of archaeological sites along the Nile and in the Wadi Hawar region reflects conditions too marshy and hazardous for settlement.
Kyle AllenHOST
During the early Holocene, humid optimum, hunters and gatherers obviously preferred the less wooded grassland farther north to the regularly flooded and densely wooded environments of the Southern Sahara.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
A considerable part of his time was taken up in war, in the east against the Libyans in the regions of the oasis, in the Nile valley to the south of Aswan against the Nubians, on the isthmus of Suez and in the Syenatic peninsula against the Bedouin, frequently also in a civil war against some ambitious noble or some turbulent member of his own family.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
He traveled frequently from south to north and from north to south, leaving in every possible place marked traces of his visits, on the rocks of Elephantine and of the first cataract, on those of Sylsillus or of El Kab, and he appeared to his vassals as Tumu himself arisen among them to repress injustice and disorder.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
He restored or enlarged the monuments, regulated equitably the assessment of taxes and charges, settled or dismissed the lawsuits between one town and another concerning the appropriation of the water or the possession of certain territories, distributed fiefs which had fallen vacant among his faithful servants, and granted pensions to be paid out of the royal revenues.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
At length he re-entered Memphis, or one of his usual residences, where fresh labors awaited him.
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