Once more on the first kings of Egypt
Once more on the first kings of Egypt

Author(s): Krzysztof M. Ciałowicz
Subject(s): Archaeology, Ancient World
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Predynastic; Protodynastic; Naqada culture; Tell el-Farkha; Horus name
Summary/Abstract: The succession of Late Predynastic rulers is one of the most importantproblems in the research on the beginnings of the Egyptian State.The results of the most recent study and excavations provide newarguments for the discussion. The discoveries at Tell el-Farkha (inthe eastern Nile Delta) have demonstrated that the formation of theworld’s first territorial state was a much more complicated processthan previously supposed. There was one state in the middle ofNaqada IIIB Egypt, dominated by a single political centre, possiblyAbydos. Iry-Hor was probably the first king known to have ruledover the whole of Egypt.

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