place - (mem-FEES) Old Kingdom capital of Egypt until 1500 BCE. The village had 100,000 people living in it at the height of its power, and lasted until the first millennium, CE, when a shift in the Nile's course left the port city more than a mile away from the river.

largest city of Tennessee; located in southwestern Tennessee on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River

an ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo)

"The White Walls," erected by Menes, the unifier of the two lands, on the border between Upper and Lower Egypt. As the "Balance of the Two Lands" Memphis became the capital of the entire kingdom.

Number one city of ancient Egypt