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Menes

Menes (fl. c. 3200–3000 BC; /ˈmiːniːz/; Ancient Egyptian: mnj, probably pronounced */maˈnij/; Ancient Greek: Μήνης and Μήν) was a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt, and as the founder of the First Dynasty.

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Burial
Umm El Qa'ab chambers B17 and B18 (Narmer’s burial) · Umm El Qa'ab chambers B10/B15/B19 (Hor-Aha’s burial)
Dynasty
First Dynasty
Predecessor
if Narmer: Scorpion II? · if Hor-Aha: Narmer
Reign
c. 3200–3000 BC
Successor
if Narmer: Hor-Aha · if Hor-Aha: Djer

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Menes

Nodes118
Edges117
Triples308
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016949
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related to General and cited references · 172
Menes → Abrams, Abydos, Alan, Alexander, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ann Arbor, Anonymous, Archeo-Nil, Archibald Henry, Archived, Archéo-Nil, ARNIL, Assyria, Available, Babylonia, Beck, Becket, Befund, Berkeley
related to Name and identity · 23
Menes → Abydos King Lists, Alternatively, An, BC, By, Edwards, Egyptian, Greek, He, Herodotus, Ka, Manetho, Min, Mênês, Naqada III, Narmer, New Kingdom, Nineteenth Dynasty, Ptolemaic, Scorpion II
related to In popular culture · 17
Menes → Alexander Dow, Ancient Egyptian, Blade, David Garrick, Drury Lane, Egypt, Egyptian, Her, In Hobby Japan's Queen's, Menace, Samuel Reddish, Scottish, Seraphis, Sethona, She, The, Theatre Royal
related to Capital · 16
Menes → Athothis, BC, Early Dynastic Period, Herodotus, Iry-Hor, Manetho, Manetho's, Memphis, Memphite, Narmer, Nile, Sinai Peninsula, Thinis, Thinite, Third Dynasty, Upper Egypt
related to history · 16
Menes → Although Menes, Ancient, Cairo Stone, Egypt, First Dynasty, He, Hellenistic, Horus, Lower Egypt, Manetho, Palermo Stone, Rome, Romulus, Royal Annals, Some, Upper
related to Dates · 14
Menes → BC, BCAugust Böckh, BCAuguste Mariette, BCChristian Charles Josias Bunsen, BCFlinders Petrie, BCFranz Joseph Lauth, BCHeinrich Karl Brugsch, BCJames Strong, BCJean-François Champollion, BCKarl Richard Lepsius, BCReginald Stuart Poole, Egyptologists, John Gardner Wilkinson, Published
related to Crocodile episode · 10
Menes → Amenemhat III, Crocodilopolis, Diodorus, Diodorus Siculus, Edwards, Gaston Maspero, Lake Moeris, Later, Sobek, Twelfth Dynasty
related to External links · 10
Menes → Aldokkan, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptian Civilization, Egypt, Horus, IL, New International Encyclopedia, Reshafim, Seth, The Contendings
related to Cultural influence · 9
Menes → Diodorus Siculus, Egypt, Elder's, For, In Pliny, Plutarch, Tefnakht, Thebes, Twenty-fourth Dynasty
related to Narmer, Hor-Aha, and Menes · 8
Menes → Aha, From, Hor-Aha, Lower Egypt, Naqada, Narmer, The, Upper

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egypt narmer hor-aha first dynasty name isbn ancient egyptian manetho pharaoh abydos king herodotus bc naqada london early period upper

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
MenesBurialUmm El Qa'ab chambers B17 and B18 (Narmer’s burial)1.00infobox
MenesBurialUmm El Qa'ab chambers B10/B15/B19 (Hor-Aha’s burial)1.00infobox
MenesDynastyFirst Dynasty1.00infobox
MenesPredecessorif Narmer: Scorpion II?1.00infobox
MenesPredecessorif Hor-Aha: Narmer1.00infobox
MenesPrenomen.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;padding:5px;border:none;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .hidden-title{font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;text-alig…1.00infobox
MenesReignc. 3200–3000 BC1.00infobox
MenesSuccessorif Narmer: Hor-Aha1.00infobox
MenesSuccessorif Hor-Aha: Djer1.00infobox
Menesis asubject of ongoing debate0.90text
Menesis aivory label0.90text
Menesrelated to CapitalManetho0.60section

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