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Menes
Founder of Manetho's 1st dynasty and unifier of Egypt
For other uses, see Menes (disambiguation).
Menes (fl.c. 3200–3000 BC;[1]; Ancient Egyptian: mnj, probably pronounced */maˈnij/;[6]Ancient Greek: Μήνης and Μήν[7]) was a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt, and as the founder of the First Dynasty.
The identity of Menes is the subject of ongoing debate, although mainstream Egyptological consensus inconclusively identifies Menes with the Naqada III ruler Narmer or his successor, the First Dynasty pharaohHor-Aha.
Name and identity
The name Menes is first documented in the work of Manetho, an Egyptian historian and priest of the relatively late Ptolemaic period.
Manetho noted the name in Greek as Μήνης (transliterated:Mênês).[11] An alternative Greek form, Μιν (transliterated:Min), was cited by the fifth-century-BC his