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    This, the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom is the formative stage of Egyptian history. Here we find the first kings and thus also the first queens. Not much is known about these women, at best some records are given about them on seals or stelae. Several of them had however a small pyramid erected for them beside the king´s. Let´s anyhow try to at least give something about them here, or name them - so that they can Live forever ;) ...
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    5th Dynasty: Neferethanebty, Khentkaues II
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    Author: * Mirjam Nebet - 26 Posts on this thread out of 1,727 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Aug 26, 2006 - 07:54

    The next king was Sahure, and his queen was Neferethanebty. The only thing we know is that she is depicted in the mortuary temple of Sahure. End of story....

    And after Sahure came Neferikare I. His queen was Khentkaues II. She has a pyramid of her own at Abusir, and shown together with her husband and Ranefer B, son of Neferikare, on a block somewhere, it doesn´t say where. *sigh*

    It can be almost a little bit depressing to read about all these forgotten and little known queens, but in a way, it´´s also good that we cover them, we´ll get a totally new viewpoint on the long history of ancient Egypt :)


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