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Nekheb (510 words) |
 | The city enclosure rests across the Nile from Nekhen and is situated on the east bank, measuring approximately 550 meters by 550 meters and is surrounded by mud-brick walls. |
| Nekheb was also the home of the vulture goddess Nekhbet who, with the cobra goddess Wadjit of Buto, were the tutelary goddesses of Egyptian kings. |
| The earliest settlements within Nekheb date to around 6,000 bce and during the Pre and Early Dynastic Periods the city's closeness to Nekhen would have made it an important center of political, military and religious activity. |
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