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    Menes (Aha) - 1st Dynasty
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    Author: * Nifisa Hatshepsut - 5 Posts on this thread out of 36 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Sep 29, 2004 - 21:07

    Aha is known as King Menes of Memphis.
    He was the founding king of the 1st Dynasty, and was the first king to unify Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom.
    Ancient Egypt's most predominant form of civilization began with his crowning, and did not end permanently until the beginning of the Roman era, which started with Augustus Caeser.

    Menes founded the city of Memphis, and chose as its location an island in the Nile, so that it would be easy to defend.
    He was also the founder of Crocodopolis.
    During his time, the Egyptian army performed raids against the Nubians in the south and expanded his sphere of influence as far as the First Cataract.

    His chief wife was Queen Berenib, though she was not the mother of his heir, King Djer, and his mother was Neithotepe.

    His death is a mystery, for, according to legend he was attacked by wild dogs and Nile crocodiles in Faiyum .

    Menes' tomb resides at Saqqara, the famed necropolis of Memphis.

    He died at the age of Sixty Three.


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