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Lower Egypt refers to the northern-most part of Egypt. It mainly occupied the fertile land of Nile Delta region that extends from region between El-Aiyat and Zawyet Dahshur situated in the southern part of the present day Cairo and the Mediterranean Sea. At present, Nile takes two main channels through the river's delta. But in the ancient period, Nile divided into seven branches on reaching the delta. These seven branches included the Pelusiac, the Mendesian, the Sebennytic, the Tanitic, the Canopic, the Phatnitic, and the Bolbitine. Now the delta area is properly watered, and crisscrossed by canals. Many Egyptian dynasties ruled the Lower Egypt.
Lower Egypt, in the ancient times, was referred to as Ta-Mehu. The word “Ta-Mehu”, in Egyptian language means “land of papyrus”. Lower Egypt was composed of twenty districts known as nomes. The first of the nomes was situated at el-Lisht. The organization of the nomes witnessed many changes because of the reason that Lower Egypt was greatly undeveloped scrubland, full of types of plant life like grasses and herbs. It was undeveloped for human life.
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Buto served as the capital city of Lower Egypt. The Cobra goddess, Wadjet, was worshipped as the patron goddess in this particular region of Egypt. The Low Red Crown Deshret represented the Lower Egypt while Papyrus symbolized Lower Egypt.
In accordance with the historians, the historical records of ancient Egypt commenced when Egypt was a unified state. The unification of Egypt took place sometime around 3150 BC. Menes, the great Pharaoh is believed to have unified the Lower Egypt and the Upper Egypt. The Egyptian customs, architecture, culture, art expression, and social structure were very much associated with religion during this time. But they underwent a change over a period of nearly three thousand years.
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However, before the unification of Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, the land was fraught with autonomous villages. With the early Egyptian dynasties, and for most of the history of Egypt, the country was regarded as the Two Lands. The kings set a national administration and recruited royal governors.
In accordance with Manetho, Menes was the first king. But the archaeologists supported the view that Narmer was the first king or pharaoh to demand to have united the Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt.
Narmer was the final pharoah belonging to the Protodynastic Period. He is well known chiefly from the great Narmer Palette, whose scenes are often described as the act of uniting Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt.
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