King Den’s names, Den, Udimu, Nebti Khasti, Usaphiados. In the Turin king list Den’s is Semti, but Manetho called him Hesepti.
King Den was the 4th king on the first Dynasty. Since the king revived power in Egypt as an baby, Queen Merenith was constituted as his political consultant, which basically meant that she reined Egypt till he was able doing so himself. Den reigned Egypt for about 50 years subsequently Wadj. He was an gumptious and acrobatic person, and was artistic also. He anatomies in the Ebers papyrus as well as the Berlin medical Egyptian Papyrus. Den was militarily actibe in the Sinai Peninsula, which was absolved by his concern in protecting the mineral imaginations of the peninsula. His mortuary composite was constitutional the ancient city of Abydos, but his body was entombed at Sakkara.
When Den was old sufficiency to attend of office of his mother, he got a avid leader. He had a hearty length of reign, likely much longer so the twenty years he is afforded by Manetho. Many affairs resting of him is discovered from everyplace in Egypt, and he is by far the best attested of all kings from the 1st dynasty. His name was barely enounced "Den" the way he is commonly called, and other names were Semti, Udimu. Zemti was imported by a the hieroglyphic bless for high desert or foreign land, credibly to immortalize his efforts attaining military campaign against people at the northeast surround as well as the desert mountains in the eastern River Nile Valley. One of these military campaign* is described on a famous ivory mark, today in British Museum.
King Den had a prosperous time on the throne and art and economy seem to have flourished. Many innovations saw the daylight during his reign and he adopted the double crown to underline his dual kingship over the two countries.
King Den's tomb at the royal burial site at Abydos an average square memorial, but had a new feature in cast of a very long broad stairs leading instantly to the tomb chamber. This new architectural designing was rapidly adoptive in the private tomb sphere as well as the coming kings.
He is told to have ameliorated the brass, and on the Palermo Stone is commemorated that he had a nose count" of whole people of the north west and east" occurring in the country, apparently to see how many bailiwicks he was reigning, and could make give taxes.
Around thirty great mastabas from his reign period were established by officials from Saqqara and upward north to Abu Roash. This was far more on the rules of his predecessors who just had a few constructed on their time on the throne.
A singular seal impression from Abydos appearances the king as gold statues, when accomplishing ritual actions like harpooning a hippo.
King Den’s Tomb:
Tomb at abydos applies a lot granite, 136 accessory burials. It is bordered by a brick wall. Firstly a stairwell was amplified the burial chamber, which is 23.77 meter heights. There are two parts of stairway were apart by a wooden door. Likewise there are jar seailings and twenty ebony and ivory catchers commemorating the Den’s reign.
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