Why is it called Egypt

The first one who used the name Aigyptos was the Greek poet Omero. This word was the Greek version of “Hikuptah”, a word that in Babylon indicated Ptah temple in Menfi, known as “Castle of Ptah’s Ka”. The ancient Egyptians, instead, called their country Kenet or Kemi which meant “black land”, referring to the fertile land covered by the black mud left from the floods of the Nile. The desert area was instead called Dashret, “the red land”. The country was divided in upper and lower Egypt, the former represented by the symbol of the cane reed and the latter with the symbol of the bee ° (or respectively, with the lotus and with the papyrus). Upper Egypt included the Valley of the Nile from Assuan to Heliopolis (in Cairo of today). Lower Egypt instead occupied the whole area of the Delta of the Nile.