King Qa'a (Kaa)

The reign of King Qa'a:
 
Scholars suggested that Qa'a lived from 3100 to 2890 BCE. For Manetho AF he reigned 26 years from 2889 to 2859 BCE. Almost scholars think that King Qa'a was the last king of the first dynasty. We may as well assure his name as Kaa, or many other fluctuations. Although Egyptologists frequently disaccord on dating, our current better estimate is that he lived from around 3100 to 2890 BC. Whilst this information on Qa'a is extremely circumscribed, till Dreyer and Kaiser analysis their information and furnish us with more information, brief additional is known of this former Egyptian Pharaoh. He was believably entombed in Tomb Q at Abydos, where 2 typical royal funerary stelae abiding his name were discovered on the east side of the tomb. This tomb has been hollowed on a number of dissimilar occations, first by Emile Amelineau in the 1890s, so Flinders Petrie and in 1991, by Werner Kaiser and Gunther Dreyer. The work treated this later German team brought out many small artefacts and architectural contingents that had been commanded by earlier diggings. These include 30 autographed labels that delineate the bringing of oil, credibly built from berries or tree rosins, and belike from the Syria-Palestine region. Seal beliefs and artifacts have likewise been discovered in Tomb Q with the call of Hetepsekhemwy, the first pharaoh of the second dynasty. This suggests that Hetepsekhemwy accomplished Tomb Q, and that there was no real breach between the first and second dynasties of Egypt. 
 
Remains determine the period of the reign of King Qa'a:
 
The change in dynasties from the first to the second was primitively reported by Manetho without explanation. We besides know of four tombs in Saqqara that date to this kings rule. The lower part of two wooden statues were found in one of these tombs in a set of rooms on the north side. Some scholars think this may have been an bidding chapel, and that the mortuary temple in pyramid composites may have evolved from this structure. Egyptologists have likewise discovered the stelae of 2 of Qa'a's officials, Merka and Sabef. These stelae have more composite inscriptions then earlier hieroglyphics, and may have indicated in increasing sophistication in the apply of this writing. Qáa was the last king of the dynasty and agreeing to Manetho he reigned for about 26 years, and this is belike because various mastabas at Saqqara are dated to his rule. During 1993 a German archaeological despatch re-excavated his tomb at Abydos and discovered that a lot alterations had been made to the tomb and attempted over significant period of time. It is one of the almost impressive at the Abydos cemetery and the funeral chamber still held divisions of the wooden floor and the colourful blueprints on the walls. A fine artefact was found by archaeologist Petrie in 1900 (shown in picture left). It's a backing rod made of ivory showing a confined of war with his hands adhered behind his back. Many is pointing to that the described man is from a tribe in the east, and the sign above is head is a really unusual hieroglyph that in later times at least, corresponded enemies from that direction. His large beard is a little to much to come from an Egyptian, they used to shave themselves at least on their cheeks. Other find from his grave was three copper bowls with the king's name on. The practice of subsidiary burial where servants were killed so to serve the ruler in the afterlife discontinued after the reign of Qáa. The beginning of his reign is recorded on the Cairo stone, assuring about his ceremonial duties and basing of temples... Amongst the ascertains in his tomb in the 1990s was a seal belief with all the kings from the first dynasty up to Qáa himself was written down. It is a singular piece with all pharaohs in a line dropping queen Neith-Hotep. The fact that Narmer is the first in line remarks him as the founder of the dynasty and unifier later called Menes. A check into administration was brought to light when year judges from his tomb told about timber deported to the royal workshops and festivals. Qáa is authenticated to the south from rock cuttings near the old town of Hierakonpolis, and also adverted on jar sealings and two besmirched stela. 
 
The double name Qaa-Hedjet:
 
Until the reign of Den Egypt seems to have enjoyed stability and prosperity, but during Anedjib's reign order broke down when contradictory divides (Horus versus Set) caused alterations that ended the dynasty. During 1960s came to light on the caper dealers' market a singular bit of art. It was a totally unknown stela of pharaoh Qaa. In his serek where his name should be, was amazingly nothing but the white crown of Upper Egypt (the Hedjet). Thus he is afterward this find also called by the double name Qaa-Hedjet. Nothing in hieroglyphic writing on the stone affirms his identity, which is made solely on aesthetic grounds from the way the relief pictures and sign are did.  
 
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King Semerkhet

Authenticity of King Semerkhet:

King Semerkhet ruled 18 years according to Manetho Africanus, and Piccione put the years between 2897 and 2889 to his reign. Semerkhet was the 6th king of the first Dynasty. He was the son of Queen Betrest and her wife King Adjib, and for unknown causes, just reigned for 8 years. Egyptologists discovered identical little, keep for a black stela with Semerkhet's name cut up on it. King Semerkhet was the 5th regent in the 1st dynasty, and he had he brusquest time on the throne, 8 and a half years. We recognize this for a fact because his accomplished reign is certificated on the Cairo Stone in the Egyptian Museum. Unfortunately the entries from every year are only about ceremonials of unlike sorts and don't record any historical consequences. Theories about his authenticity to kingship proposing that he was an supplanter has been bring up by scholars because he had the use of reprocessing his predecessor's goods. At the cemetery at Abydos aims from King Anedjib age (and grave) was discovered in Semerkhet's where he had effaced the original name and superseded it with his own. In a varnish from his heir his name is composed in the line with the other kings, apprisal that he was recognized as a pharaoh leastwise by his follower, who was his son. A year mark from Semerkhet reign was discovered in his follower's tomb at the re-excavation in the mid 1990 brought in by the [German Institute of Archaeology] in Cairo. 
 
The Tomb of Semerkhet:
 
Semerkhet's tomb in Abydos displays a new boast: retainers' tombs attached at once to the thick walls of his own, and a door bewitch rather so a staircase conducing to the tomb chamber. This entails that the all building was bred by the same superstructure, arguing that the considerations were buried at the like time, and thus credibly sacrificed to the accolade of their headmaster. Amongst the extending good was discovered ten vessels spelt from Palestine when it was dug up by English Egyptologist Petrie in 1901. The extraneous trade was conserved during his rule, but never accomplish the height it had on the middle of the dynasty. 

North Saqqara Tomb:
 
The only aim of content to have endured from Semerkhet's rule is a black granite funeral stela ascertained by his tomb in 1898. It had primitively consisted to a pair raised external his monument, a custom from the very commencing of the dynasty. King Semerkhet is the first king who doesn't have a mastaba tomb from his time at North Saqqara, and it's expected that his high officials endured his short rule and kept serving the following monarch. Leastwise one of them is cognised by his nominate "minister Henuka".  

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King Anendjib

The Origin of the Name of King Anendjib:

King Anendjib ruled about 26 years from 2949 to 2897. Anedjib was the 5th king on the first dynasty. Anendjib held Memphis as his capitol city passim his fourteen years of reign. Anedjib's crown acquitted the symbols of both Upper and Lower Egypt, a histrionics of the conjugation of the country under his power. Historians, even so, incertitude that Anedjib actually ascertained the north, due to the fact that the northerly Nomes arose against him perpetually throughout his rule. His wife Queen Betrest was the mother of King Semerkhet, who was his heir. The queen allowed Anedjib with authenticity and power as she was a descendent from the Memphite royalty. Anedjib is a ruler that not so much is acknowledged about. He was as well named Enezib and Merbiapen and reigned from Memphis. Concording to Manetho (Af.) who called him Miebidos, his rule was twenty-six years. He could have bear on power by union to queen Betrest of the Memphite royal family and in this encase he wasn't son of king Den. 

Where was the Name of King Anendjib Found?
 
A dispute between the Lower Egyptian classes and the south appears to have been impermanent solved by Anedjib whose name is the first of totally kings in the Saqqara list. Perhaps he was the first king not to be forthwith related the Thinis line of pharaohs. Yet the theory that he was an supplanter (or his heir was) and was not accredited by all his generation, has some essence, because his memorials were advisedly outraged by his contiguous follower on the throne. His name in a serek has been deleted and the new king's put there alternatively in a lot stone vessels found at Saqqara. Rather than there his name has just been discovered in two other locates in Egypt: Abydos and Helwan, and away its borders perhaps at En Besor in southern Palestine. 
 
Was the Reign of King Anendjib a Period of Social Disquiet and Political Imbalance?
 
At Saqqara a big mastaba, credibly for his prime minister, brought out a new architectural building within when it was apprehended out in the 1950s. In counterpoint his possess tomb in Abydos was a blunt small building (image right) so were the courses of 64 satellite tombs. This high up number assures that though is rule appears to have been a step backward for the country in general (home conflict?) the king's power all over the common man* was unploughed. The engrave chamber even held divisions of the wooden floor after 4.500 years. Maybe attempting to constitute himself as the true king boilersuit Egypt he assumed a new entitle [The Two Lords]. He thereby credibly underlined his chore not put anybody in favour of the of the deities Horus and Set whose assistants obviously had dissevered the country spiritually and made more or less social disquiet and political imbalance. This carried on well in to, and even to the end of the next dynasty. His power all over the south was disputed by local folks and the northern nomes were frequently disaffected. Many stone targets have shown that the habit of building statues of the pharaoh had already started. They describe king Anedjib as a statue assuming various apparels, and these likely stood in another temples. 

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