Divisions and borders. – Egypt is the country that the Nile bathes below Elephantine (Herodotus, II, 18). Its name, as we have seen, is taken from that of the ancient city of Memphis (Babylonian Ḫ ikuptah, which in Greek became Αἴγυπτος). The natives called it Kême “Black”, in opposition to Ṭ or š re “Red” […]