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Sources of history in ancient Egypt

Sources of history in ancient Egypt




How researchers were able to know the history of ancient Egypt

What are the sources that they used in that

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This question is asked by people almost everywhere in the world

How can we make sure of everything in the history books in terms of the number of families, their arrangement and the names of the kings? And the events that passed at that time in ancient Egypt

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You should know that there are three main sources

The first source

They are what our ancient Egyptian ancestors left for us in terms of antiquities, temples, obelisks, tombs, and evidence of that



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The second source

 They are the royal lists that arrange and sequence the kings and their number during the Pharaonic history and periods of their rule and the most important events that occurred in their era such as

(Palermo Stone - Karnak List - Abydos List - Saqqara List - Turin Papyrus, the most important characteristic of this papyrus is its historical division and its division of kings into groups


This list is a list of the kings of Egypt, which was created by King Seti I of the Nineteenth Dynasty (1300 BC) inscribed on the walls of his temple in the city of Abydos

This list contains the names of 75 Egyptian kings who ruled Egypt before King Seti I, starting with the first family, which begins with King Mina, unifying the two countries of the sea and the tribe, and ends this list in City I

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The third source

It is the genealogical texts that were narrated and told us the names of the kings until the end of the late ages of this ancient Egyptian history in addition to the Ptolemaic sources. King Ptolemy assigned him to write and count the ancient Egyptian history



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