Assiut is Upper Egypt Capital because of it is strategic value position between Upper and Lower Egypt (Al Saaeed) it is about 375 km south of Cairo. it was the end of the road for camel caravans that traveled up the 40 Day Road from Darfur in the Sudan, It was found in pharaonic times as Syut Later, then the Greeks renamed it Lycopolis which means 'city of the wolf'.
