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** the Palermo Stone lists mythological origin kings of Egypt and early Old Kingdom kings and dynasties | ** the Palermo Stone lists mythological origin kings of Egypt and early Old Kingdom kings and dynasties | ||
*** it serves as a unique contemporaneous (from that time) historical evidence of the pre-dynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt | *** it serves as a unique contemporaneous (from that time) historical evidence of the pre-dynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt | ||
* other historical sources include: | |||
** Manetho's chronology: c. 300 BC Greek or Egyptian priest who recorded a list, or "Annals", of Egyptian kings | |||
** Royal Tablet of Karnack: lists Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty | |||
** Royal Tablet of Sakara: lists 58 kings from "Meibis" to Ramses the Great | |||
** Royal List of Abydos: from the Temple of Sethos | |||
*** shows Ramses II and Sethos I paying homage to their ancestors | |||
*** and lists 76 names of prior kings | |||
*** the list does not give dates but creates a reference of names | |||
** other sources are from individual engravings, steles, temples, etc. that list kings, dynasties, events, and years between them | |||
*** << to move this to its own section | |||
*** from "Gods, Graves and Scholars", p. 123-124 | |||
* see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep Imhotep (wikipedia) for strong, genius vizier under Djoser (3rd dynasty) | * see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep Imhotep (wikipedia) for strong, genius vizier under Djoser (3rd dynasty) | ||