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History & Genealogy
Before the Pyramids – Part 3: What Makes a Pharaoh? Defining Rulership in Ancient Egypt
I. OPENING: The Question Behind the Question Throughout this series we’ve examined the physical evidence for Egypt’s earliest…
History & Genealogy
Before the Pyramids – Part 2: Menes, Narmer, or Someone Else? Untangling Competing Theories
I. OPENING: The Name Problem If you ask most people who the first pharaoh of Egypt was, they’ll…
History & Genealogy
Before the Pyramids – Part 1: Reading the Stones: Physical Evidence of Egypt’s First Rulers
I. OPENING: The Scene Stand in the desert at Abydos, about 300 miles south of Cairo, and you’re…