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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)