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Extract from the Akhmim Travel Guides: Only a century ago, guidebooks ranked Sohag as less important than
AKHMIM
, across the Nile - a place reckoned "the oldest city in Egypt" by the sixteenth-century Moorish geographer-historian Leo Africanus. Akhmimis have built on the rubble of their ancestors since pre-Dynastic times, so the whole town rests on a mound of remains, with a maze-like street plan essentially unchanged since the Middle Ages. The town's name derives from the Coptic
Khmim,
itself derived from the name of an ancient local fertility god, Khente-Min, who was often represented by a giant phallus.
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