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Palermo Stone

Index Palermo Stone

The Palermo Stone is one of seven surviving fragments of a stele known as the Royal Annals of the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 56 relations: Abydos King List, Ancient Egypt, Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum, Basalt, Betrest, Cairo, Den (pharaoh), Deshret, Djedefre, Djer, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian Museum, Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, First Dynasty of Egypt, Flinders Petrie, Flooding of the Nile, Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, Great Pyramid of Giza, Hor-Aha, Huni, Italy, James Henry Breasted, Khasekhemwy, Khufu, List of pharaohs, London, Lower Egypt, Manetho, Memphis, Egypt, Menes, Meresankh I, Middle Egypt, Narmer, Neferirkare Kakai, New Kingdom of Egypt, Nilometer, Nynetjer, Old Kingdom of Egypt, Palermo, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, Sahure, Saqqara Tablet, Season of the Inundation, Second Dynasty of Egypt, Sed festival, Semerkhet, Seti I, Shepseskaf, Sicily, Sneferu, ... Expand index (6 more) »

  2. 1859 archaeological discoveries
  3. 24th-century BC steles
  4. 25th-century BC steles
  5. Ancient Egyptian King lists
  6. Ancient Egyptian stelas
  7. Fifth Dynasty of Egypt

Abydos King List

The Abydos King List, also known as the Abydos Table, is a list of the names of 76 kings of ancient Egypt, found on a wall of the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, Egypt. Palermo Stone and Abydos King List are ancient Egyptian King lists.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum

The Antonino Salinas Regional Archeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas) is a museum in Palermo, Italy.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Betrest

Betrest (also read as Batyires,Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, and BatiresGrajetski Ancient Egyptian Queens: a hieroglyphic dictionary Golden House Publications, pg. 4-5) was a queen of Ancient Egypt.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Den (pharaoh)

Den, also known as Hor-Den, Dewen, and Udimu, was the Horus name of a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period who ruled during the First Dynasty of Egypt.

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Deshret

Deshret (𓂧𓈙𓂋𓏏𓋔|translit.

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Djedefre

Djedefre (also known as Djedefra and Radjedef) was an ancient Egyptian king (pharaoh) of the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom.

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Djer

Djer (or Zer or Sekhty) is considered the third pharaoh of the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt in current Egyptology.

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Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.

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Egyptian Museum

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum (al-Matḥaf al-Miṣrī, Egyptian Arabic) (also called the Cairo Museum), located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world.

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Fifth Dynasty of Egypt

The Fifth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty V) is often combined with Dynasties III, IV and VI under the group title the Old Kingdom.

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First Dynasty of Egypt

The First Dynasty of ancient Egypt (Dynasty I) covers the first series of Egyptian kings to rule over a unified Egypt.

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Flinders Petrie

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (–), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts.

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Flooding of the Nile

The flooding of the Nile has been an important natural cycle in Nubia and Egypt since ancient times.

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Fourth Dynasty of Egypt

The Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty IV) is characterized as a "golden age" of the Old Kingdom of Egypt.

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Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid.

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Hor-Aha

Hor-Aha (or Aha or Horus Aha) is considered the second pharaoh of the First Dynasty of Egypt by some Egyptologists, while others consider him the first one and corresponding to Menes.

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Huni

Huni (original reading unknown) was an ancient Egyptian king, the last pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom period.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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James Henry Breasted

James Henry Breasted (August 27, 1865 – December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian.

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Khasekhemwy

Khasekhemwy (ca. 2690 BC; Ḫꜥj-sḫm.wj, also rendered Kha-sekhemui) was the last Pharaoh of the Second Dynasty of Egypt.

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Khufu

Khufu or Cheops was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, in the first half of the Old Kingdom period (26th century BC).

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List of pharaohs

The title "pharaoh" is used for those rulers of Ancient Egypt who ruled after the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt by Narmer during the Early Dynastic Period, approximately 3100 BC.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lower Egypt

Lower Egypt (مصر السفلى) is the northernmost region of Egypt, which consists of the fertile Nile Delta between Upper Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, from El Aiyat, south of modern-day Cairo, and Dahshur.

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Manetho

Manetho (Μανέθων Manéthōn, gen.: Μανέθωνος) is believed to have been an Egyptian priest from Sebennytos (translit) who lived in the Ptolemaic Kingdom in the early third century BC, during the Hellenistic period.

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Memphis, Egypt

Memphis (Manf,; Bohairic ⲙⲉⲙϥⲓ; Μέμφις), or Men-nefer, was the ancient capital of Inebu-hedj, the first nome of Lower Egypt that was known as mḥw ("North").

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Menes

Menes (mnj, probably pronounced *; 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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Meresankh I

Meresankh I ("She loves life") was an ancient Egyptian kingʻs wife and the mother of King Sneferu.

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Middle Egypt

Middle Egypt is the section of land between Lower Egypt (the Nile Delta) and Upper Egypt, stretching upstream from Asyut in the south to Memphis in the north.

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Narmer

Narmer (nꜥr-mr, may mean "painful catfish", "stinging catfish", "harsh catfish", or "fierce catfish;") was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period, whose reign began at a date estimated to fall in the range 3273–2987 BC.

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Neferirkare Kakai

Neferirkare Kakai (known in Greek as Nefercherês, Νεφερχέρης) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the third king of the Fifth Dynasty.

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New Kingdom of Egypt

The New Kingdom, also referred to as the Egyptian Empire, was the ancient Egyptian state between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC.

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Nilometer

A nilometer was a structure for measuring the Nile River's clarity and water level during the annual flood season.

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Nynetjer

Nynetjer (also known as Ninetjer and Banetjer) is the Horus name of the third pharaoh of the Second Dynasty of Egypt during the Early Dynastic Period.

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Old Kingdom of Egypt

In ancient Egyptian history, the Old Kingdom is the period spanning –2200 BC.

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Palermo

Palermo (Palermu, locally also Paliemmu or Palèimmu) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.

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Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London is part of University College London Museums and Collections.

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Sahure

Sahure (also Sahura, meaning "He who is close to Re") was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the second ruler of the Fifth Dynasty (c. 2465 – c. 2325 BC).

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Saqqara Tablet

The Saqqara Tablet, now in the Egyptian Museum, is an ancient stone engraving surviving from the Ramesside Period of Egypt which features a list of pharaohs. Palermo Stone and Saqqara Tablet are ancient Egyptian King lists and Egyptian Museum.

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Season of the Inundation

The Season of the Inundation or Flood (Ꜣḫt) was the first season of the lunar and civil Egyptian calendars.

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Second Dynasty of Egypt

The Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt (or Dynasty II, c. 2890 – c. 2686 BC) is the latter of the two dynasties of the Egyptian Archaic Period, when the seat of government was centred at Thinis.

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Sed festival

The Sed festival (ḥb-sd, conventional pronunciation; also known as Heb Sed or Feast of the Tail) was an ancient Egyptian ceremony that celebrated the continued rule of a pharaoh.

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Semerkhet

Semerkhet is the Horus name of an early Egyptian king who ruled during the First Dynasty.

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Seti I

Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period, ruling or 1290 BC to 1279 BC.

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Shepseskaf

Shepseskaf (meaning "His Ka is noble") was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the sixth and probably last ruler of the fourth dynasty during the Old Kingdom period.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Sneferu

Sneferu (snfr-wj "He has perfected me", from Ḥr-nb-mꜣꜥt-snfr-wj "Horus, Lord of Maat, has perfected me", also read Snefru or Snofru), well known under his Hellenized name Soris (Σῶρις by Manetho), was the founding pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom.

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Stele

A stele,From Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai; the plural in English is sometimes stelai based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles.) or occasionally stela (stelas or stelæ) when derived from Latin, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument. Palermo Stone and stele are ancient Egyptian stelas.

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Third Dynasty of Egypt

The Third Dynasty of ancient Egypt (Dynasty III) is the first dynasty of the Old Kingdom.

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Turin King List

The Turin King List, also known as the Turin Royal Canon, is an ancient Egyptian hieratic papyrus thought to date from the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II, now in the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin. Palermo Stone and Turin King List are ancient Egyptian King lists.

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Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt

The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXV, alternatively 25th Dynasty or Dynasty 25), also known as the Nubian Dynasty, the Kushite Empire, the Black Pharaohs, or the Napatans, after their capital Napata, was the last dynasty of the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt that occurred after the Kushite invasion.

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University College London

University College London (branded as UCL) is a public research university in London, England.

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Userkaf

Userkaf (known in Ancient Greek as Οὐσερχέρης) was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the founder of the Fifth Dynasty.

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See also

1859 archaeological discoveries

24th-century BC steles

25th-century BC steles

Ancient Egyptian King lists

Ancient Egyptian stelas

Fifth Dynasty of Egypt

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo_Stone

Also known as Hsekiu, Khayu, Mekh, Neheb, Old Kingdom Annals(Ancient Egypt), Stele of Palermo, Teyew, Thesh, Tiu (Pharaoh), Tjesh, Wazner.

, Stele, Third Dynasty of Egypt, Turin King List, Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, University College London, Userkaf.