ABSTRACT
THE writers of histories of Egypt and of summarIes of Egyptian history before 1894: were compelled to begin their narratives by stating briefly or otherwise that our knowledge of the history of the Ist, IInd, and IfIl"d Dynasties was limited to the names of the kings which were dori ved from the King Lists, and from a few monumonts of tho IInd and IIIrd Dynasties; of the Ist Dynasty no monument whatsoever was known. Sinoe that year, however, a number of exoavations have been made in Up pOl' Egypt by Messrs .. J. de Morgan, Amelineau, Petrie, Quibell, Garstang, and others, and those have resulted in the discovery of the tombs of several of the kings and officials of the Ist and lInd Dynasties, as woll 3':: of a large number of contemporaneous objects, i.e., stelae, vases and jars, sculptured slabR, ivory amI ebony objects, etc. At N a~[tcla, 1\1. J. de l\Iorg[\ll excavated a v2ry large tomb, whioh
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KHA-SEKIIElII (or Khii-Sekhemui) whose personal name was ~3esh. The name of the latter king was tliscovered by 1\[. Amelinean, but it was misread TI.~ Later, Prof. Petrie exc[LYatcd the tombs of several of the kings ubove-mentionell, aIllI the tomb of a ],ing whose personal name was l\hm-NEIT but whose Horns llame is unknowll, and the tomb of a king whose Horus name was QA and also the
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