Dating
Egyptologists, archaeologists and scholars from the 19th century have proposed different dates for the era of Menes, or the date of the first dynasty:
- Jean-François Champollion (1840) - 5867 BC
- August Böckh (1845) - 5702 BC
- Auguste Mariette (1871) - 5004 BC
- Flinders Petrie (1887) - 4777 BC
- Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1859) - 4455 BC
- Franz Joseph Lauth (1869) - 4157 BC
- Karl Richard Lepsius (1856) - 3892 BC
- Christian Charles Josias Bunsen (1848) - 3623 BC
- Reginald Stuart Poole (1851) - 2717 BC
- James Strong (1878) - 2515 BC
- John Gardner Wilkinson (1835) - 2320 BC
Modern consensus by Egyptologists dates the era of Menes or the start of the first dynasty between c. 3100 - 3050 BC. However some academic literature uses the date c. 3000 BC.
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