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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]
Some dynasties only ruled part of Egypt and existed concurrently with other dynasties based in other cities. The 7th might not have existed at all, the 10th seems to be a continuation of the 9th , and there might have been one or several Upper Egyptian Dynasties before what is termed the 1st Dynasty .
Pages in category "Ancient Egyptian family trees" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt family tree; S.
Pepi II Neferkare (2284 BC – after 2247 BC, probably either c. 2216 or c. 2184 BC [2] [note 1]) was a pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty in Egypt's Old Kingdom who reigned from c. 2278 BC. His second name, Neferkare ( Nefer-ka-Re ), means "Beautiful is the Ka of Re ".
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.
Pepi was the son of the pharaoh Teti and 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 pyramid on ...
Teti, less commonly known as Othoes, sometimes also Tata, Atat, or Athath in outdated sources (died c. 2333 BC), was the first king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt. He was buried at Saqqara . The exact length of his reign has been destroyed on the Turin King List but is believed to have been around 12 years.
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 ...