Licht

Licht is a site of the ancient Egypt, which is with an about sixty kilometers in the south of the Cairo. The site includes/understands the first necropolis royal of and thus marks the return of the capacity to Memphis after its episode thébain of the Montouhotep of. Amenemhat 1st and its son and successor Sésostris 1st built their funerary complexes there on a level strongly inspired by that of the pyramidal complex of Pépi {{II}} located him at Saqqarah. These monuments testify thus to the will posted of the new dynasty to be attached to this glorious time of the Ancient Empire.

A new royal residence

When Amenemhat {{Ier}} (-1991/-1962) arrived at the capacity, it founded a new capital, some share in north, forsaking of this fact Thèbes. This new royal residence, it called it Amenemhat Itchtaouy (or Itj-Tawi) “ Amenemhat (is) that which seizes the two grounds ”. It is this royal residence which is the theater of the events brought back in the Conte of Sinouhé, famous work of the Moyen Empire

The city forever be localized. The fact however, that almost each king of built his monument close to the oasis of the Fayoum, carried out the specialists to think that the new capital of Amenemhat 1st was to be located some share close to this oasis. The monument of Amenemhat 1st is close to the modern village of Licht (or El-Lisht), on a site located at the south of Dahchour, not far from Meïdoum (or Medoum). The Egyptologists thus suppose that Amenemhat 1st chose this site because it was close to its capital, with stronger reason since it was followed in that of its successor, Sésostris {{Ier}} (-1962/-1928) and of this fact they identify Itchtaouy with Licht.

The site also includes/understands pyramids of queens and tombs intended for the royal family as well as mastabas offered by the sovereigns to noble and royal courtiers of the time, additional witnesses of this return to the old values lost during the {{intermediate Ire}} period.

Monuments of the necropolis of Licht

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