AKHMIM, a town of Upper Egypt, on the right bank of the Nile, 67m. by river south of Asyut, and 4m. above Suhag, on the opposite side of the river. It has several mosques and two Coptic churches, maintains a weekly market, and manufactures cotton goods, notably the blue shirts and check shawls with silk fringes worn by the poorer classes of Egypt. Outside the walls are the scanty ruins of two ancient temples. In Abulfeda's days (13th century A.D.) a very imposing temple still stood here. Akhmim was the Egyptian Apu or Khen-min, in Coptic Shmin, known to the Greeks as Chemmis or Panopolis, capital of the 9th or Chem mite nome of Upper Egypt. Herodotus mentions the temple dedi cated to "Perseus" and asserts that Chemmis was remarkable for the celebration of games in honour of that hero, after the man ner of the Greeks, at which prizes were given ; but it is possible that he confused Coptos (q.v.) with Chemmis. Strabo mentions linen-weaving as an ancient industry of Panopolis, and it is not altogether a coincidence that the cemetery of Akhmim is one of the chief sources of the beautiful textiles of Roman and Coptic age that are brought from Egypt. Monasteries abounded in this neighbourhood from a very early date. Nonnus, the Greek poet, was born at Panopolis.