Nekhen n or Hieraconpolis (s; Ἱεράκων πόλις hierakōn polis, `city of hawks`, الكوم الأحمر, Al-Kom Al-Aħmar, `red mound`) was the religious and political capital of Upper Egypt at the end of the Predynastic period ==Horus cult center== Nekhen was the center of the cult of a hawk deity Horus of Nekhen, which raised in t...
Ancient caspital of Upper Egypt, cult center of Horus.