Meryt-Neith
Dates: about 3000 BCE
Occupation: Egyptian ruler
Early Egyptian writing includes fragments of inscriptions describing the history of the first dynasty to unite Egypt's upper and lower kingdoms, about 3000 BCE.
A carved funeral monument discovered in 1900 CE has on it the name Meryt-Neith. Egyptologists believe this to the third ruler of the first dynasty -- and realized that the name likely refers to a female ruler. Other excavations support the idea that she ruled with the power of a king and was buried with the honors of a powerful ruler. But the inscriptions and objects tell nothing else of her life or reign, and her very existence is not well-proved.
About Meryt-Neith
- Categories: Egyptian ruler
- Organizational Affiliations:
- Places: Egypt
- Period: ancient history
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