Was the Nile land called "Egypt" in ancient times?

SUMMARYWas the Nile land called "Egypt" in ancient times? (Nov 3, 2026).
RECORD, what the people called themselves: in their own hieroglyphs the land is Kemet (km.t, "the black land," for the dark Nile soil), also Ta-Meri ("the beloved land") and Tawy ("the Two Lands"). They never called it "Egypt."
RECORD, where "Egypt" comes from: the temple of Ptah at Memphis was called Hut-ka-Ptah ("house of the ka [spirit] of Ptah"). It appears as "Hikuptah" in the Amarna letters (about 1350 BC). Mycenaean Linear B tablets from Knossos (about 1300s BC) have "a-ku-pi-ti-yo," a name meaning "the Egyptian." Homer (about 700s BC) uses "Aigyptos" for both the river and the land. Greek Aigyptos became Latin Aegyptus and then English "Egypt."
RECORD, the other outside name: Misr in Arabic, from Semitic Mitzrayim (Hebrew) and Misri/Musur (Akkadian, in the Amarna letters)

PATTERN"Egypt" is an outsider's name, a Greek label taken from ONE temple in ONE city: Memphis. The land's own name was Kemet, "the black land." Then the American Memphis (1819) borrows the very city whose temple gave "Egypt" its name

LENSlike "America," "Egypt" is a name given from outside; the people's own name, Kemet, the black land, is the true one (Pattern). OPEN, needs deep research: whether "Kemet"/"black land" names appear among American peoples or places.
ANSWER TO TITO: yes, the Greeks called the Nile land Aigyptos from at least the 1300s–700s BC (Linear B, Homer); but the people who lived there never called it Egypt. They called it Kemet.