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| Sanakhte | Sanakhte, also known as Nebka (in Greek known as Mesochris), was the first pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of Ancient Egypt (ruled 2686-2668 BC).
Sanakhte's name means 'strong protection'. He presumably gained his position by marriage to a daughter of Khasekhemwy, his predecessor as pharaoh; the kingship even at this early period being passed down through the female line.
While Sanakhte's existence is attested by a mastaba tomb and a graffito among other objects, his position as the founder of the Third Dynasty of Ancient Egypt as recorded by Manetho and the Turin Canon has been seriously undermined by recent archaeological discoveries at Abydos.
They establish beyond doubt that it was Djoser, instead, who helped bury--and thus--succeed Khasekhemwy from seals found at the entrance to the latter's tomb bearing Djoser's name. (see Toby Wilkinson in Early Dynastic Egypt, (1999), p.83 & 95).
It appears instead that Nebka was a later king of the Third Dynasty instead. In addition, unlike Djoser, few relics survive from Sanakhte's reign which also casts serious doubts on Manetho and the Turin Canon's traditional figure of an 18 year reign for this king.
It must be stressed that the Turin Canon and Manetho were more than one and two thousand years removed from the time of Egypt's early Third Dynasty and would be expected to contain more inaccurate or unreliable data. The Turin Canon, for instance, was transcribed on papyri which dates to the reign of the New Kingdom king Ramesses II who ruled Egypt from 1279-1213 BC.
A large mastaba near Abydos contained fragments bearing the name of Sanakhte, however. It also contained skeletal remains, which may have been that of this king. Manetho credits a king by this name as being particularly tall, which is borne out by the remains that were found within.
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Pepi II
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Pepi II (c. 2278 BC–c. 2184 BC) was a pharaoh of the Sixth dynasty in Egypt's Old Kingdom. His throne name, Neferkare (Nefer-ka-Re), means "Beautiful is the Ka of Re". He was once thought to be the son of Pepi I and Queen Ankhesenpepi II but it is now believed Pepi II was rather the son of Merenre, who married Ankhesenpepi after Pepi I's death--based on an inscription from a block of white limestone from her mortuary temple, according to Audran Labrousse, director of the French Archaeological Mission.
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Teti
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Teti was the first Pharaoh of the Sixth dynasty of Egypt. He is also known (much less commonly) as Othoes. He reigned from around 2345 to 2333 BC and is buried at Saqqara, however the exact length of his reign has been destroyed on the Turin King List and is arguable. Queen Iput, his wife, was probably the daughter of King Unas, the last king of the Fifth dynasty.
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| Neferefre |
Neferefre (also called Raneferef) was a Pharaoh of Egypt during the Fifth dynasty. His name means "Beautiful is Re" in Egyptian. A significant cache of administrative papyri–comparable in size to those found in the temple of Neferirkare–was discovered at Abusir by a 1982 University of Prague Egyptological Institute excavation from a storeroom of his mortuary temple. | |
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| Userkaf |
Userkaf was the founder of the Fifth dynasty of Egypt and the first pharaoh to start the tradition of building sun temples at Abusir. Userkaf's name means "his Ka (or soul) is powerful."He ruled from 2465-2458 BCE. He constructed the Pyramid of Userkaf complex at Saqqara. Userkaf's mother is known to be a certain Queen Neferhetep but his father is unknown although Userkaf was a grandson of Djedefre, the immediate successor of Khufu.
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