Showing posts with label Nitocris (2260-2250). Show all posts
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Nitocris (2260-2250)

Nitocris
The great historian, Herodotus, listed her and related a fiction concerning her activities.  Nitocris  reportedly  referred  power  after  her brother,  Merenre II ( 2152  B.C.E.),  was  slain.  In vengeance  she  supposedly  invited  hundreds  of  officials she thought responsible for her brothers death to a banquet in a black chamber and then flooded it. She had a one-year dominate and was listed in the turin canon. Nitocris was the royal match of King Merenr II.

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