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The Sixth Dynasty is considered by many authorities as the last dynasty of the Old Kingdom, although The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt [1] includes Dynasties VII and VIII as part of the Old Kingdom. Manetho writes that these kings ruled from Memphis, since their pyramids were built at Saqqara, very close one to another. [2]
The first 30 divisions come from the 3rd century BC Egyptian priest Manetho, whose Aegyptaiaca, was probably written for a Greek-speaking Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt but survives only in fragments and summaries. The names of the last two, the short-lived Persian-ruled 31st Dynasty and the longer-lasting Ptolemaic Dynasty, are later coinings.
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People of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt (3 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Sixth Dynasty of Egypt" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Nitocris (Greek: Νίτωκρις) possibly was the last queen of the Sixth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.Her name is found in writings long considered as relatively accurate resources: a major chronological documentation of the reigns of the kings of ancient Egypt that was composed in the third-century BC by Manetho, an Ancient Egyptian priest and by the ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, in his ...
Pepi was the son of the king Teti and queen consort Iput. [16] Her parentage is directly attested to by a relief on a decree uncovered in Coptos that mentions Iput as Pepi's mother, [17] by inscriptions in her mortuary temple mentioning her titles as mother of a king and as mother of Pepi, [18] [note 2] by the architecture of her tomb which had been changed from an original mastaba form into a ...
Pepi II Neferkare (c. 2284 BC – c. 2214 BC [2] [note 1]) was a king of the Sixth Dynasty in Egypt's Old Kingdom. His second name, Neferkare ( Nefer-ka-Re ), means "Beautiful is the Ka of Re ". He succeeded to the throne at age six, after the death of Nemtyemsaf I .