Which Narmer am I?

Have you ever explored Early Egypt from 6,000 years ago?

This app makes it more fascinating than ever before - pharaohs, their pyramids, temples, tombs, treasures. New discoveries from new disciplines such as patterns, social sciences, computing. New interpretations of people, places, events, artifacts.


INTRODUCING

Narmer, the first pharaoh 5,050 years ago according to Early Egyptians

Buried in a mud brick tomb beneath the desert plain at Abydos, 530 km south of Cairo

Narmer and his successors united the South and the North into a modern state

From 1,000 years before Narmer small groups of hunter-gatherers transformed themselves into larger, thriving communities of fisher-herder-farmers

Nekhen, Naqada, Abydos were the main centers, becoming with the Old Kingdom

Within 400 years the first pyramids were constructed at Saqqara, Dahshur, Giza

Tomb 100 at Nekhen was found with many artifacts from different periods

Including the Narmer Palette with reliefs of Bat and Horus protecting Narmer

Narmer as pharaoh protecting his people in the Two Lands

One of the most valuable treasures in the Cairo Museums - never to be taken out of Egypt