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Akhmim

Also known as Panopolis

Akhmim is a town on the east bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt, in Sohag Governorate. Called Panopolis by the Greeks, it was a cult centre of the god Min and in late antiquity a centre of textile production and Christian monasticism. Medieval Arab historians report that Nubian forces from Makuria raided Upper Egypt as far as Akhmim in the 960s.

Akhmim
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Akhmim. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/akhmim
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