The ancient Atbo (Apollinopolis Magna) was capital of the second nome of Upper Egypt.
For four or five centuries it became the entrepot of trade between India, Arabia and Upper Egypt.
The discoveries of papyri in Upper Egypt during recent years, containing original letters written by persons of various classes and in some cases contemporary with the Epistles of the New Testament, have immensely increased our knowledge of the Greek of the period, and have cleared up not a few difficulties of language and expression.
The uten is found divided by 6 to be 245, in Upper Egypt (rare) (44).
The Nubian goat, which is met with in Nubia, Upper Egypt and Abyssinia, differs greatly in appearance from those previously described.
