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Palermo Stone

c. 25th century BCE · 25th century BCE

The Palermo Stone is the largest fragment of an ancient Egyptian royal annal carved on a basalt slab in the 5th Dynasty, around the 25th century BCE. Kept in Palermo since 1877, it lists early kings year by year with events such as festivals, Nile flood heights and expeditions, including Sneferu's import of forty ships of cedar. Other fragments are in Cairo and London.

Palermo Stone
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Kingdom of Lower Egypt

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Palermo Stone. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/palermo-stone
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