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Pharaoh Narmer has for some reason always been put outside the dynasty scheme, but since the Egyptians themselves from the very beginning recorded him as their first king, there is no reason not to give him prime position in the line of rulers.
He could well have been named Nar-bedjau or something similar. His name does not appear in later king lists, though he had so many written remains during his lifetime. Many of them are found on jars in grave from Tarkhan, the possibly last stronghold for the southern kings of Thinis before the final push northwards to make the revolution complete. This indicates that his reign was prior to Menes, the legendary unifier of the two Egyptian lands according to Greek historian Manetho, living in Egypt in the 200s BC. There are many things about Narmer pointing in the opposite direction - that he was Menes. His name was first in line of kings from seals during the first dynasty, and his name has been found from Syria in the north to Nubia in the south, but only on petty things like jars, potsherds and labels.
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