Existing Primary Old Lists of Pharaohs
The texts of existing primary old lists of pharaohs are incomplete:
- Palermo stone
- Turin Royal Canon
- Manetho's Aegyptiaca (History of Egypt)
- Abydos King List
- Karnak Tablet
- South Saqqara Stone (discovered 1923, includes dyn. 6)
- Saqqara Tablet (discovered 1861, includes dyn. 1-12)
Archibald Sayce gave comparative data on several of these lists in his book The Ancient Empires of the East (1884), in addition to the lists found in Herodotus, Diodorus, Eratosthenes, and even a fanciful list found in "the Arabic writers". Yet another fanciful list that does not appear in Sayce, is found in the Book of Sothis that George Syncellus attributed to Manetho.
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