Histories

From Heliopolis [31.333,30.1] (deserted settlement), Cairo, Urban, Egypt, Africa Heliopolis to Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaThebes is nine days' journey by river, and the distance is six hundred and eight miles, or eighty-one schoeni.

This, then, is a full statement of all the distances in Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt: the seaboard is four hundred and fifty miles long; and I will now declare the distance inland from the sea to Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaThebes : it is seven hundred and sixty-five miles. And between Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaThebes and the city called Elephantine there are two hundred and twenty-five miles.