Ancient Egyptians Kings and how we get our knowledge about them. We know that ancient Egyptians civilization developed among the old history and three main ages,
Predynastic period, Dynastic period, and late period.
for the predynastic period, blogging and writing on papyrus weren't take place in that period so how we could know the kings of that age, Here is the answer Palermo stone.
What is the Palermo stone?
The stone was probably engraved during the last years of the Fifth Dynasty or the amount immediately afterward. Thus dated to around 2420 BC (BCE), it's the oldest surviving historical text of ancient Egypt and was probably the idea of subsequent histories and chronologies, including that of Manetho.
The
hieroglyphics list the kings until the time of Menes (circa 3000 BC),
specifically his more important predecessors, the earliest of whom are
the quasi-mythical "god-kings." Menes is usually credited with uniting Egypt, but the Palermo Stone suggests that the region may originally are united long before his reign, implying that he reunited it following a
period of chaos. Nevertheless, the stone's engravings state that Menes received the throne from the god Horus, who is simply one among the various deities mentioned.
In addition to the present chronology, it mentions specific events, like the peak of the Nile during flooding, taxation, religious festivals, military activity, and even certain buildings. Details like donations to the temples also are featured, mentioning land, cattle, and agriculture. The hunting of hippos is noted within the annals of the primary Dynasty. The smelting of copper to form statues, indicated as early because the Second Dynasty (beginning 2890 BC), is beneficial in just ascertaining the earliest phase of the Bronze Age.
Records like this are best interpreted in corroboration with others, like the "Royal Canon" of the Turin Papyrus, useful for dates beginning thousand years later than the amount of focus of the Palermo Stone --a reminder that the varied kingdoms of Egypt existed, in one form or another, for an era spanning quite three millennia, until the Roman domination. Corroboration isn't limited to documentary evidence; identifying actual buildings with those mentioned within the inscriptions is additionally important.
Continuity is that the
whole point behind this unique chronicle, written to legitimize Menes'
own Fifth Dynasty as a legitimate successor to older historical dynasties and even gods. Thus it's unsurprising that Menes would assert that his throne was an immediate gift from Horus. because the references recede into antiquity, their literal accuracy probably lessens, though the inscriptions almost certainly reflect earlier ones lost to time. an honest case might be made Phoenician stelae in Sicily. for the Palermo Stone being the oldest written historical document within the world to possess been definitively dated and completely interpreted.
Inscribed on each side, the piece of the stone in Palermo is merely a fraction of the first stela. Other pieces are displayed within the Cairo Museum and therefore the Petrie Museum (London). Discovered near Memphis in 1866, the Palermo Stone ended up in Sicily on the way to London. Only in 1895 was it found in Sicily, and its importance noted, by an archaeologist visiting from France. In fact, it had been kept by a Sicilian family in their home, where it had been actually used as a door mat. (This certainly seems to support the thesis that until recently Sicily wasn't the foremost appropriate place to preserve antiquities, whether Sicilian or foreign.) the primary published information regarding the Palermo Stone was the study of Heinrich Schafer, in 1902.
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