EGYPT AND THE GOLDEN RATIO, IN THE MIDDLE IS THE CITY ASYUT, ANCIENT ASYUT WAS THE CAPITAL OF THE THIRTEENTH NOME OF UPPER EGYPT (LYCOPOLITES NOME) AROUND 3100 BC. THE NAME OF THE CITY IS DERIVED FROM EARLY EGYPTIAN ZAWTY (Z3JW.TJ) (LATE EGYPTIAN, SƏYÁWT) ADOPTED INTO THE COPTIC AS SYOWT ⲤⲒⲞⲞⲨⲦ, WHICH MEANS "GUARDIAN" OF THE NORTHERN APPROACH OF UPPER EGYPT. IN GRAECO-ROMAN EGYPT, IT WAS CALLED LYCOPOLIS OR LYKOPOLIS (GREEK: ΛΥΚΌΠΟΛΙΣ, "Ἡ ΛΎΚΩΝ ΠΌΛΙΣ"), ('WOLF CITY') LYCON, OR LYCO.
