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  2. Scorpion II - Wikipedia

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    Scorpion II (Ancient Egyptian: possibly Selk or Weha [1]), also known as King Scorpion, was a ruler during the Protodynastic Period of Upper Egypt (c. 3200–3000 BCE). Identity Name

  3. Scorpion I - Wikipedia

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    Scorpion I (fl. c. 3275 BC) was a ruler of Upper Egypt during Naqada III. He was one of the first rulers of Ancient Egypt, and a graffito of him depicts a battle with an unidentified predynastic ruler. His tomb is known for the evidence of early examples of wine consumption in Ancient Egypt.

  4. Scorpion Macehead - Wikipedia

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    The Scorpion macehead (also known as the Major Scorpion macehead) is a decorated ancient Egyptian macehead found by British archeologists James E. Quibell and Frederick W. Green in what they called the main deposit in the temple of Horus at Hierakonpolis during the dig season of 1897–1898. [1]

  5. Siege of Naqada - Wikipedia

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    Most of Upper Egypt became unified under rulers from Abydos during the Naqada II period (3600–3200 BCE), at the expense of rival powerful polities such as Hierakonpolis which had in the past decades declined in power and had retreated from Northern Upper Egypt. [4] King Scorpion I's conquest over Middle Egypt kept trade and international ...

  6. Ka (pharaoh) - Wikipedia

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    Ka is one of the best attested predynastic kings with Narmer and Scorpion II. Beyond Abydos, he is attested in the predynastic necropolis of Adaima in Upper Egypt [10] and in the north in Tarkhan, Helwan, Tell Ibrahim Awad, Tell el-Farkha (Eastern Nile Delta), Wadi Tumilat and as far north as Tel Lod in the Southern Levant. [11]

  7. Naqada III - Wikipedia

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    He was possibly preceded over some parts of Upper Egypt by Crocodile, Iry-Hor, Ka, and perhaps by the king Scorpion II, whose name may refer to, or be derived from, the goddess Serket, a special early protector of other deities and the rulers. [9] Naqada III extended all over Egypt and was characterized by some notable firsts: The first hieroglyphs

  8. Serket - Wikipedia

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    Serket / ˈ s ɜːr ˌ k ɛ t / (Ancient Egyptian: srqt) is the goddess of healing venomous stings and bites in Egyptian mythology, originally the deification of the scorpion. [2] Her family life is unknown, but she is sometimes credited as the daughter of Neith and Khnum, making her a sister to Sobek and Apep.

  9. Rekhyt - Wikipedia

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    The scene is interpreted as a victory of King Scorpion II over the Rekhyt people. However, the Rekhyt standards might symbolically represent the control of Scorpion over different areas of Egypt, not necessarily with military conflict. In addition, the creation of irrigation ditches or channels by Scorpion and other people can be seen.