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Menkaure or Menkaura (Egyptian transliteration: mn-kꜣw-rꜥ; c. 2550 BC - c. 2503 BC) was a king of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom.He is well known under his Hellenized names Mykerinos (Ancient Greek: Μυκερῖνος, romanized: Mukerînos by Herodotus), in turn Latinized as Mycerinus, and Menkheres (Μεγχέρης, Menkhérēs by Manetho).
They could own property and were, at court, legally equal to men. However, Ancient Egypt was a patriarchal society dominated by men. Only a few women are known to have important positions in administration, though there were female rulers and even female pharaohs. Women at the royal court gained their positions by relationship to male kings. [1]
Khamerernebty I was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th dynasty.She was probably a wife of King Khafre and the mother of King Menkaure and Queen Khamerernebty II.It is possible that she was a daughter of Khufu, based on the fact that inscriptions identify her as a King's daughter.
Khentkaus I, also referred to as Khentkawes (fl. c. 2500 BC), was a royal woman who lived in ancient Egypt during both the Fourth Dynasty and the Fifth Dynasty. [2] She may have been a daughter of king Menkaure, the wife of both king Shepseskaf and king Userkaf (the founder of the Fifth Dynasty), the mother of king Sahure.
G3-b (also G3b, G3 b, GIIIb) is one of the three pyramid companions Pyramid of Menkaure.It is located on the south side of the Menkaure pyramid in the Giza Necropolis.It is the middle of the three pyramids of the queens, and in the structure the body of a woman was discovered. [1]
Lehner et al. (2011) suggest that, although concrete evidence is lacking, the occupants of the southern homes of the town may have served either or both Khentkaus' and Menkaure's mortuary cults. Despite this, the layout and orientation of Menkaure's and Khentkaus' structures suggest a separation between their monuments and estates. [44]
Occasionally men had tools and weapons placed in their graves, while some women had jewelry and cosmetic objects, such as mirrors. Grindstones were sometimes included in women's tombs, perhaps to be considered a tool for food preparation in the next world, just as the weapons in men's tombs imply men's assignment to a role in fighting. [10] (p 77)
Menkare (died c. 2200 BC) was an ancient Egyptian king, the first or second [1] ruler of the Eighth Dynasty.Menkare probably reigned a short time at the transition between the Old Kingdom period and the First Intermediate Period, in the early 22nd century BC. [2]