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Khasekhemwy

r. c. 2690 BCE · 27th century BCE

Khasekhemwy was the last king of the Second Dynasty of Egypt, around 2690 BCE. He reunited the country after a period of division, and his name placed both Horus and Seth above it, signalling reconciliation. His tomb at Abydos is the largest of the early royal tombs, and his great mud-brick enclosure there, the Shunet el-Zebib, still stands.

Khasekhemwy
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Early Dynastic Egypt

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