Ancient Egypt, - Sources

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1. list of kings which survives in extracts, divides rulers into groups called 'dynasties', counts 30 dynasties, assumes kings ruled one after the other

  • Abydos Kinglist
  • Turin Canon
  • Manetho's Kinglist
  • Saqqara Kinglist
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2. Where was the Turin Canon found?

  • Abydos
  • Saqqara
  • Thebes
  • Memphis

3. Writes about foreign people in his histories during the 5th Century BC, gets his information about Egypt from an Egyptian priest

  • Manetho
  • Herodotus
  • Thucydides
  • Pausanias

4. 5 fragments of a large 5th dynasty monument, originally 2m tall, list of royal annals (historical information, nile levels, rituals, building of temples) separated like a table?

  • Turin Canon
  • Palermo Stone
  • Annals of Amenemhat II
  • Annals of Sensuret I

5. inscribed in temple of Seti I, depiction of Seti and son paying respects to 75 royal ancestors, large part of list correlates with other evidence (reasonably reliable)?

  • Turin Canon
  • Abydos Kinglist
  • Palermo Stone
  • Saqqara Kinglist
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