Fayoum was in the era of the pharaohs, part of the twenty regions of the provinces of Upper Egypt and was the capital of Ahanasia, and when it flourished, it became called Persin, meaning the house of the crocodile, which was worshiped at that time, and there was a rural, coastal, desert and urban environment – so Fayoum is considered one of the tourist attractions in Egypt. The name in the late texts of the Pharaonic era, Bayum, meaning lake or water. Then it appeared in Coptic Fayoum and in Arabic Fayoum after the introduction of the definite article.