King | Reigned | Key Events |
---|---|---|
Menes of This | 30 years | Advanced with his army beyond the frontiers of his realm |
Athothis | 27 years | Built a royal palace at Memphis |
Cencenes | 39 years | |
Vavenephis | 42 years | Reared pyramids near the town of Cho |
Usaphis | 20 years | |
Niebais | 26 years | |
Mempes | 18 years | A great pestilence occurred during his reign |
Vibenthis | 26 years |
Egypt is one of the oldest and most advanced civilizations of ancient times. The two most widely recognized symbols of this ancient civilization, the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx, only give us echoes of ancient Egyptian knowledge and culture. Archaeological evidence and ancient writings have taught us a great deal about this interesting civilization.
Manetho, an Egyptian historian who wrote in Greek around the third century BCE, wrote a history of the early rulers of Egypt. His "History of the Egyptians" is one of the key sources that helped early Egyptologists and archaeologists determine the early rules of this great civilization. It wasn't until much later, when the Rosetta Stone was discovered in the late 18th century, that