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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Oshun: Asiatics didn't have to pour in by the second millennium. Research suggests that the Delta area and Faiyum doubled in size. Rather than "mass migration" it's possible that the North was always more diffused compared to southerners who had more affinity to Nubians, [b]or that small-scale migration over the course of thousands of years gradually changed the North[/b].[/QUOTE]That argument only works if you're talking about very different population-sizes. I don't see any evidence this was the case for north vs. south ancient Egypt. From Butzer’s (1976) estimates, he has pre-dynastic Egyptians at 866,000; 1,614,000 during Old Kingdom, 1,966,000 for Middle Kingdom and up to 3,000,000 for New Kingdom. Memphis is pretty far north in Middle Egypt, not that far from the Delta, estimates vary- [quote][b]According to T. Chandler, Memphis had some 30,000 inhabitants and was by far the largest settlement worldwide from the time of its foundation until around 2250 BCE and from 1557 to 1400 BCE.[/b] K. A. Bard is more cautious and estimates the city's population to have amounted to about 6,000 inhabitants during the Old Kingdom.[quote] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Egypt#Population [/QB][/QUOTE]
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