Abstract
The territorial organization of Egypt in the 3rd millennium still defies historical interpretations. The paucity of the sources, their uneven chronological and geographical distribution, and the apparently fluid borders of some of the provinces, especially in the Delta, are among the more minor obstacles. Egypt apparently knew no major territorial rupture during this entire period, and even internal turmoil seems to have been quite rare, perhaps the end of the Second Dynasty being the only exception. The ink inscriptions written on several hundred vessels found in the galleries of the mortuary complex of Pharaoh Djeser, dating from the Third Dynasty, provide fundamental information about the territorial organization of the kingdom. The beginning of the 6th dynasty was a period of important changes in the territorial organization of the kingdom. Recent research indicates that the First Intermediate Period was nothing like the 'dark age' suggested by the traditional historiography. Keywords:3rd millennium; Dynasty; Egypt; Old Kingdom; territorial administration
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