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Short lived pharaoh, possibly an aged son of Pepi II. 1 year and 1 month c. 2183 BC Netjerkare I: Neitiqerty Siptah : This male king gave rise to the legendary queen Nitocris of Herodotus and Manetho. [71] Sometimes classified as the first king of the combined 7th/8th Dynasties. Short reign: c. 2182–2179 BC
Pharaoh (/ ˈ f ɛər oʊ /, US also / ˈ f eɪ. r oʊ /; [4] Egyptian: pr ꜥꜣ; [note 1] Coptic: ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ, romanized: Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: פַּרְעֹה Parʿō) [5] is the vernacular term often used for the monarchs of ancient Egypt, who ruled from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BCE) until the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Republic in 30 BCE. [6]
Tutankhamun and his queen, Ankhesenamun Tutankhamun was born in the reign of Akhenaten, during the Amarna Period of the late Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.His original name was Tutankhaten or Tutankhuaten, meaning "living image of Aten", [c] reflecting the shift in ancient Egyptian religion known as Atenism which characterized Akhenaten's reign.
Ahmose I (Amosis, Aahmes; meaning "Iah (the Moon) is born" [24]) was a pharaoh and founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt in the New Kingdom of Egypt, the era in which ancient Egypt achieved the peak of its power.
Future king-lists skipped straight from Akhenaten's father, Amenhotep III, to Horemheb. [7] Within a few years of Tutankhamun's burial, his tomb was robbed twice. After the first robbery, officials responsible for its security repaired and repacked some of the damaged goods before filling the outer corridor with chips of limestone.
Known as Ramses the Great, the pharaoh ruled Egypt from 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C. and is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern day Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.
The face represents the pharaoh's standard image, and the same image was found by excavators elsewhere in the tomb, in particular in the guardian statues. [10] He wears a nemes headcloth, topped by the royal insignia of a cobra and vulture , symbolising Tutankhamun's rule of both Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt respectively.
Pharaoh Seti I, detail of a wall painting from the Tomb of Seti I, KV17, at the Valley of the Kings. Neues Museum Hieroglyphs from the tomb of Seti I Seti's well-preserved tomb ( KV17 ) was found in 1817 by Giovanni Battista Belzoni , in the Valley of the Kings ; [ 23 ] it proved to be the longest at 446 feet (136 meters) [ 24 ] and deepest of ...