By: Mary Ankrah
According to the Egyptian history, Narmer was the first king of the first dynasty of Egypt. He was an ancient Egyptian “striker”, and Egyptian pharaoh who ruled in the 32nd century BC.
Before he came in, the southern and northern Egypt was divided. As the southern king, he conquered the northern king and united the two kingdoms of the Upper and Lower Egypt. Narmer’s “tomb was thought to have been comprised of two joined chambers (B17 and B18) found in the Umm el-Qa’ab region of Abydos with.”[1]
Also, during the 17th dynasty era, Queen Ahmose Nefetari was one of the remarkable women who helped unified Egypt and defeated the invaders. During this time, Egypt was known as “the second intermediate period when Lower Egypt was ruled by a group of invaders called Hyksos who were an Asiatic people.”[2]
She was known as the mother of the 18th dynasty. Queen Ahmose Nefetari held many titles including the title of Second Prophet of Amen and title of Gods wife which was the most important one she cherished.
Another unifier of Egypt was King Piankhi. He was the ruler of the kingdom of Cush on the Upper Nile who inherited his father, Kashta, the founder of the Nubian Kingdom. His conquest of Lower Egypt brought to being the 25th dynasty of pharaohs.
During his time, he supervised the refurbishment of some crumbling temples in Lower Egypt and introduced the Egyptian custom of building pyramids. After Piankhi’s death, Shabaka became pharaoh of Egypt and Kush. Historically, King Shabaka is said to have united the history of Nubian and Egyptian.
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