Narmer information

Narmer (Ancient Egyptian: nꜥr-mr, may mean "painful catfish", "stinging catfish", "harsh catfish", or "fierce catfish;") was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh...

The Narmer Palette, also known as the Great Hierakonpolis Palette or the Palette of Narmer, is a significant Egyptian archaeological find, dating from...

Egyptological consensus inconclusively identifies Menes with the Naqada III ruler Narmer or his successor, the First Dynasty pharaoh Hor-Aha. The commonly-used name...

Narmer macehead The Narmer macehead is an ancient Egyptian decorative stone mace head. It was found in the "main deposit" in the temple area of the ancient...

immediately follows the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, possibly by Narmer, and marks the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period, when power was centered...

example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette...

pottery shard from Naqada, and later, Narmer is shown wearing the red crown on both the Narmer Macehead and the Narmer Palette. The white crown of Upper Egypt...

iconography is similar to the depiction of the pharaoh Narmer on the obverse side of the Narmer Palette. The king is preceded by servants, the first in...

subsequently considered to be the wife of unified Egypt's first pharaoh, Narmer, and the mother of Hor-Aha. More recent discoveries suggest that Neithhotep...

listed in following order: Narmer Hor-Aha Djer Djet Den Merneith (Den's mother and regent) The list bolsters the argument that Narmer was the founder of the...

credited Menes, now believed to be the same as Narmer, as the king who united Upper and Lower Egypt. On the Narmer Palette, the king is depicted wearing the...

Crown Narmer Palette, front The vertical letter N, as preposition, or determinative in the Egyptian language Close-up of Narmer Palette, Pharaoh Narmer with...

2600 BC: Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland is inhabited. c. 3090 BC: Narmer (Menes) unifies Upper and Lower Egypt into one country; he rules this new...

Protoliterate period of Mesopotamia (circa 3500–3000 BC). Examples include the Narmer Palette and the Oxford Palette. The cylinder seal of Uruk (image above)...

Egypt and Lower Egypt occurred often. During his reign in Upper Egypt, King Narmer defeated his enemies in the Delta and merged the kingdoms of Upper Egypt...

The Narmer Palette, with serpopards, Nekhen Two Dog Palette, with serpopards, Nekhen The Narmer macehead found in Nekhen Content of the Narmer macehead...

view has been abandoned among modern scholars. Most Egyptologists consider Narmer to be both the last king of this period and the first king of the First...

Ancient Egypt who ruled after the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt by Narmer during the Early Dynastic Period, approximately 3100 BC. However, the specific...

identified him with Wash, who is known as the ruler defeated by Narmer on the Narmer Palette, an opinion later shared by Edwin van den Brink. By contrast...

present-day monarchies. Early Dynastic usage of the white crown: the Narmer palette of Pharaoh Narmer Small bronze statuary usage with the hedjet, white crown Bronze...

the Thinite Confederacy, a tribal confederation whose leader, Menes (or Narmer), united Egypt and was its first pharaoh. Thinis began a steep decline in...

unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Menes (often identified with Narmer). The history of ancient Egypt unfolded as a series of stable kingdoms interspersed...