The name is said to be Arabic for place where things are picked up? This area is south of Medinet Habu and near the Birket Habu which is an ancient artifical lake built by Amenhotep 3 (another megabuilder type!) Malqata is the modern name given to the remains of Amenhotep's palace. Recent digs on this site have unearthed mosaics and tiles and wall paintings.
See Thebes Photographic Project and
Malqata Palace Project , and Egyptian Culture Centre
Tell El-Mas'khuta*Per-Temu *Tjeku. This site was once identified with biblical Pithom but recent work has made this uncertain.
MEDAMUD
*MADU 8 K ? 5 M North east of luxor cnetre of Montu worship
There was once a temple here joined by a canal to karnak
Medinet El-Fayum + Arsinoe + Crocodopolis in Faiyum.
Medinet Habu- *DjemeThis area of Western Thebes was believed to be an earthly parallel to the Primeval Lake and Mound. It is the area near the Ramesses 3 temple complex (this building has the famous releif of R3 battling and defeating the Sea Peoples. A fallen statue of Ramesses3 may be the inspiration for Shelley's Ozymandias' poem as Ramesses 3' God name was User-matt-re. This area is also noted for a Roman era cemetery, a temple to Amun in his serpent form as Kamutef, Late Romand and Coptic housing, the tomb of Montuemiset, and the Chapels of the Divine Adoratrices.
MEDINET MADI
Faiyum = Narmouthis Deites Sobek Horus Renenutet.
Also known as Maidum. Tombs of Nefermaat with the Goose frieze, Prince Rahotep and wife Nofret
MEIDUM - Noted for an unfinished pyramid and Dynasty 3 and 4 sites including the Tomg of Nefermaet noted for its famous Geese wall painting.
MEMPHIS
Mit Rahina
see linked file that needs finishing!!!
MENDESDelat Tell el-Ruba. *Anpet the fish city
Deity: Banebdjedet a Ram god, the Male consort of Hatmehyt a fish goddess.
MERIMDA - a Western Delta Predynastic site near Beni Salama.
MIDAN - Arabic for Town or city centre or square.
E-Mo'alla #0 ? South of Thebes.
Tomb of Ankhtifi Nomarch of Edfu and Hierakonopolis
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