The city of Sakha is about 3 km south of Kafr El-Sheikh and 135 km north of Cairo. Its old name was “Khast” and it was the capital of the sixth region of Lower Egypt, and in the 18th century BC,
It was the seat and capital of the 14th Pharaonic dynasty, which included 76 kings, and it ruled the throne of Lower Egypt for 184 years.
In the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, it was called “Exoes” or “Axios”, and the name changed after a while to “Pikha Isos”.
