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Medjay
The Medjay were a people of the Eastern Desert of Nubia, known from Egyptian texts from the Old Kingdom onwards. In the Middle Kingdom they served as scouts and auxiliaries for the Egyptian army and are associated with the archaeological Pan-Grave culture. By the New Kingdom the name had come to mean an Egyptian desert police force.
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