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[[File: Ancient_Egypt.png|300px|thumbnail|left| Map of Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Sais Is in the Western Delta]]__NOTOC__
Among all of ancient Egypt’s important cities, Sais, or <i>Sau</i> in the ancient Egyptian language, is perhaps the most overlooked. Memphis was the political capital for most of pharaonic history, Thebes was an important religious center in the Middle and New kingdoms, as well serving as a secondary political capital, and Alexandria became the urban focus of Egypt after the Greek Ptolemies conquered the land in the fourth century BC. But from 664 BC until the arrival of Alexander the Great in 332 BC Sais was among the most, if not <i>the</i> most important cities in Egypt. Unlike the other great Egyptian cities, though, Sais had a very different path to glory.
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[[Category: Ancient History]] [[Category: Ancient Egyptian History]] [[Category: Urban History]] [[Category: Religious History]]
