Some Geographical Notes on Ancient Egypt

A selection of papers published over the last twenty years. They are largely concerned with the physical aspects of ancient Egypt - the identification of places, the meaning of words, plant types, interpetation of hieroglyphs and Egyptian concepts of geography: The Wadi Tumilat, ATIKA and MW-QD; Some rapidly disappearing and unrecorded sites in the eastern Delta; Notes on the lexikon entries Meer and Syrien; The chief obstacle to understanding the Wars of Ramesses III; BHDT in the Delta; The Sea Peoples; The Lebanon (sic) and Djahy in the Egyptian texts; The rhj.t people as permanent foreigners in ancient Egypt; The problems of Sile and t3rw ; Some problems preventing our better understanding of the Delta; A contribution to our understanding of KMT; The so-called plant of Upper Egypt (and a postscript); A note on the hnmmt ; The two lands: the black and the red; ; A geographical note on the Libyans so-called; Shat of the nine bows; Some remarks in the Cedar of Lebanon ; The Byblos question again; Some Libyans in the Thera frescoes?; A note on ATIKA/ATTAKA/TAKA and Copper; Cedar again; The city of Dor and Wenamun; Remarks on the Merenptah stela and the so-called name of Israel; Notes on the two lands of ancient Egypt and the 'heraldic' plants; Lapwings and bow weopans as alternative symbols of west and east in ancient Egypt.