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		The chronology of the Twelfth dynasty is the most stable of any period before the New Kingdom (additional info and facts about New Kingdom).
		This dynasty was founded by Amenemhat I (additional info and facts about Amenemhat I), who had been vizier (A high official in a Muslim government (especially in the Ottoman Empire)) to the last Pharaoh (The title of the ancient Egyptian kings) of the Eleventh dynasty (additional info and facts about Eleventh dynasty), Mentuhotep IV.
		And it is during the Twelfth dynasty that we find the earliest examples of Egyptian literature.
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	Encyclopedia: Twelfth dynasty of Egypt
		The Twenty-eighth dynasty of Egypt had one ruler, Amyrtaeus, who was a descendant of the Saite kings of the Twenty-sixth dynasty, and led a successful revolt against the Persians on the death of Darius II.
		Egypt is the land of the Nile and the pyramids.
		The Fayyum was rescued for agriculture by the kings of the Twelfth Dynasty; and two obelisks were erected in front of the temple of the sun-god at On or Heliopolis (near Cairo), one of which is still standing.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Twelfth-dynasty-of-Egypt (3596 words)

	Middle Kingdom of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Middle Kingdom is a period in the history of ancient Egypt stretching from the establishment of the Eleventh Dynasty to the end of the Fourteenth Dynasty, roughly between 1991 BC and 1648 BC.
		The first Pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty, (Amenemhat I), is, according to some sources, the same man as Amenemhat, the (Vizier) of (Upper Egypt), under the reign of Mentuhotep IV.
		These kings appear to gradually lose their grasp over Egypt, and a Fourteenth Dynasty appeared in the Delta region, but the pharaohs of this dynasty seem to be minor monarchs in the Delta region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Middle_Kingdom_of_Egypt (866 words)

	Twelfth dynasty of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Egyptologists consider this dynasty to be the apex of the Middle Kingdom.
		However, after Amenemhat, the energies of this dynasty were largely spent, and the growing troubles of government were left to the dynasty's last ruler, Queen Sobekneferu, to handle.
		The pharaohs of the Twelfth Dynasty are credited with the earliest known construction of canal running through the Wadi Tumilat; it would later be renewed under kings Necho II and Darius I.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twelfth_dynasty_of_Egypt (576 words)

	Eleventh dynasty of Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was during this dynasty that all of ancient Egypt was united under the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.
		This dynasty traces its origins to a nomarch of Thebes, Intef (nomarch) the Great, son of Iku, who is mentioned in a number of contemporary inscriptions.
		An inscription carved during the reign of Wahankh Intef II shows that he was the first of this dynasty to claim to rule over the whole of Egypt, a claim which brought the Thebeans into conflict with the rulers of Heracleopolis, or the Tenth dynasty of Egypt.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Dynasties-of-Ancient-Egypt/Eleventh-dynasty-of-Egypt.html (362 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Eleventh dynasty of Egypt
		It was during this dynasty that all of ancient Egypt was united under the Middle Kingdom.
		This dynasty traces its origins to a nomarch of Thebes, "Intef the Great, son of Iku", who is mentioned in a number of contemporary inscriptions.
		An inscription carved during the reign of Wahankh Intef II shows that he was the first of this dynasty to claim to rule over the whole of Egypt, a claim which brought the Thebeans into conflict with the rulers of Herakleopolis Magna, the Tenth dynasty.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Eleventh_dynasty_of_Egypt (374 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Egypt
		In ancient Egypt the tuft of papyrus was the coat of arms or symbol of the Northern Kingdom.
		This is in particular the case for the Seventh and Eighth dynasties (Memphites), the Ninth and Tenth (Heracleopolites), the Eleventh (Theban -- contemporary with the Tenth), the Thirteenth (Theban) and the Fourteenth (Xoite -- in part simultaneous), the Fifteenth, and the Sixteenth (Hyksos), and the Seventeenth Dynasty (Theban -- partly contemporary with the Sixteenth.
		Under the kings of the Twelfth Dynasty, chiefly under Usertasen III (the Sesostris of the Greeks), the conquest was achieved, and the valley of the Upper Nile as far as the Second Cataract was organized into an Egyptian province.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05329b.htm (18093 words)

	Sixth dynasty of Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Sixth Dynasty of Egypt is considered by many authorities as the last dynasty of the Old Kingdom of History of Ancient Egypt, although The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (ed.
		This dynasty was founded by Teti, who had married Iput, commonly believed to be the daughter of king Unas of the Fifth dynasty of Egypt.
		During this dynasty, expeditions were sent to Wadi Maghara in the Sinai to mine for turquoise and copper, as well as to the mines at Hatnub and Wadi Hammamut.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Dynasties-of-Ancient-Egypt/Sixth-dynasty-of-Egypt.html (297 words)

	Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Driven out of Egypt by the next Dynasty, this group retired to Napata, in the Sudan, and retained a Kingdom there and (from 590 BCE) at Meroë until the 4th century CE.
		During the 22nd through 26th dynasties, the cities of Athribis and Heliopolis were under the control of a hereditary princedom, nominally subservient to the Pharaohs.
		Because of the importance of Egypt as the Empire's breadbasket, by law the governor of Egypt could not be of the Senatorial class (it was feared that consolidating too much power in a Senator invited revolt).
	www.hostkingdom.net /egypt.html (2558 words)

	Notebook
		Certainly in the time of the Sixth Dynasty Palestine and south Syria passed under the control of Egypt, though such control was interrupted by the invasion of the 'Hittite' tribes responsible for the introduction of the Khirbet Kerak pottery originating in the Araxes valley.
		Thus at the beginning of the second millennium the position was that the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur controlled the whole of Mesopotamia proper, had made themselves masters of Elam and were the dominant influence in north Syria.
		Egypt was saved, but the invasion, though it failed, had changed the face of the whole Middle East.
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	Amenemhet, I Biography / Biography of Amenemhet, I Biography
		The pharaoh Amenemhet I (reigned 1991-1962 BC), though not of royal blood, was the founder of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt.
		Mindful of the difficulties his predecessors of the Eleventh Dynasty had experienced in controlling Lower Egypt from Thebes, Amenemhet transferred his seat of government to a site 18 miles south of Memphis, on the boundary between Upper and Lower Egypt, where he built the fortified city of It-towy (Seizer of the Two Lands).
		The sources for the rise of the Twelfth Dynasty are discussed in William C. Hayes's chapter "The Middle Kingdom in Egypt" in J. Bury and others, eds., The Cambridge Ancient History, vol.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-amenemhet-i (611 words)

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		The Twelfth Dynasty kings shifted the seat of the state from Luxor in the south to Memphis in the north.
		The Twelfth Dynasty monarchs built pyramid complexes for themselves near Memphis (at Dashur, south of Saqqara) and on the outskirts of the Fayyum (then a swampy area where they seem to have maintained royal palaces and hunting preserves).
		The Eleventh Dynasty's rulers proclaimed Amun as the greatest of the Gods and argued that they were his children (both literally and figuratively): they were the ones upon whom Amun "chose" to confer power over all of Egypt.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/legacy/egypt/middle_kingdom.html (866 words)

	Egyptian Pharaohs
		Egypt was divided into three districts, one from the Delta to the capital in the Fayyum, above Cairo; the second from the capital to Thebes; and the third from Thebes to the southern border.
		In Egypt, it was partly the exploits of Sesostris III, partly those of his two like-named predecessors, and also the deeds of Ramses II of the 19th dynasty to come, which came to figure in the legend of Sesostris III that Herodotus recorded.
		The Seventeenth Dynasty, and the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty from the north, had co-existed peacefully for some time, as the Thebans grazed their cattle in the Delta (northern Egypt) which was ruled by the Hyksos.
	www.hooper-home.net /CHRONO/Pharaohs.html (5864 words)

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		Queen Soreknofru is one of the rulers during this dynasty.
		Queen Hatshepsut is one of the rulers of the XVIII Dynasty.
		671 BCE: Egypt - Egypt is conquered by the Assyrians.
	eawc.evansville.edu /chronology/egpage.htm (682 words)

	The Middle Kingdom of Egypt
		The XII Dynasty, the height of the Middle Kingdom, is one of the classic periods of Egyptian history.
		The XII Dynasty pyramids were comparable in size to those of the V and VI Dynasties, and for the first time incorporated blind passages, trap doors, and other security measures in the interiors.
		The Dynasty ends with the reign of Queen Sebeknefrure (or Sokebneferure), one of three women who are known to have occupied the throne of Ancient Egypt (not counting Greek Queens like Cleopatra), though nothing otherwise is known about Sebeknefrure or her reign.
	www.friesian.com /notes/midking.htm (2534 words)

	Egypt: History - Pharaonic Dynasty VI (Sixth Dynasty)
		All that need be said here about the close of Dynasty VI is that dynastic troubles clearly ensued immediately after the death of the aged king and that as in Dynasty XII a queen momentarily succeeded in taking advantage of the situation.
		It has been argued, probably rightly, that the post was created in Dynasty V both to ensure the collection of taxes throughout the southern nomes and also to counteract the growing power of the provincial nobles.
		In Dynasty IV the vizier was regularly one of the royal princes, but later the office passed into the hands of some noble of outstanding ability, with whom it tended to become hereditary.
	www.touregypt.net /hdyn6.htm (4895 words)

	Articles - Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ancient Egypt was a civilization along the Lower Nile extending from as far south as Jebel Barkal, Napata [1], and then northward to the Mediterranean Sea, though varying in size throughout its history between circa 3200 BC and 343 BC, ending with the conquest of Alexander the Great.
		Somewhat counter-intuitively, Upper Egypt was in the south and Lower Egypt in the north, named according to the flow of the Nile.
		There is evidence of ancient Egyptian pharaohs of the twelfth dynasty using the natural lake of the Fayyum as a reservoir to store surpluses of water for use during the dry seasons.
	www.sinoz.com /articles/Ancient_Egypt (2182 words)

	Moses In The Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian Literature: Glossary
		Fifth king of the Twelfth Dynasty, usually considered to be the son of Sesostris II.
		He is in the Twelfth Dynasty version of “The Legend of the 80 years Contendings of Horus and Seth,” another aspect of Moses.
		The main problem in Twelfth Dynasty chronology seems to be the reign of Sesostris II being indeterminate, confused, conflated.
	arismhobeth.com /arismhobeth_Glossary.html (17106 words)

	Egypt: History - Dynasty XII (Twelfth Dynasty)
		He is mistaken, however, in describing Dynasty XII as Diospolite (Theban), since perhaps its principal differentiating feature, apart from its interdependence as a single family, was its removal to a geographic position far away to the north.
		Ameny goes on to say that in spite of all the exactions imposed by his royalty he had ruled his province with unswerving justice, respecting the poor man's daughter and the widow, banishing poverty and tilling the land with such assiduity that in years of famine no one was hungry.
		Whether it was he or one of his successors who instituted the irrigation improvements referred to by Herdotus and Strabo is unknown, but certain it is that from this time onwards the surroundings of the famous Lake of Moeris became a happy resort for the Pharaohs, who indulged their passion for fishing and fowling.
	www.touregypt.net /hdyn12.htm (7337 words)

	Hammurabi and the Revised Chronology
		On the accepted timetable, the Hyksos (Dynasties 14 to 17) ruled from that year for one century, until, in -1580, the Eighteenth Dynasty initiated the era of the New Kingdom.
		Nor were retained as valid the historical sources (Josephus-Manetho) that allotted 51 I years for the Hyksos period; nor was the consideration of cultural changes, as advocated by H. Hall—who pleaded for four or five centuries for the Hyksos period—given a chance.
		When the end of the Twelfth Dynasty was brought down to -1680, there was no time left for the Thirteenth; and with only one century for the Hyksos, the bottom of the Middle Kingdom had apparently reached a level below which it could not be reasonably or securely dropped.
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	Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe: Chapter XIV. Decline of Crete and Rise of Greece
		Thereafter the Amorite migration culminated in the rise of the Hammurabi Dynasty at Babylon.
		Some authorities believe that the Herakleopolite Kings of Egypt of the Ninth and Tenth Dynasties were descendants of foreign conquerors who entered through the eastern Delta and destroyed the mummies of the great Pyramid Kings of the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties.
		The Cretans ceased to be known in Egypt as the Keftiu during the reign of Amenhotep III, the father of Akhenaton.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/moc/moc19.htm (6480 words)

	AskWhy! Dating Ancient Near Eastern History I - Jewish Scriptures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The best known dynasties, from their own copious records, are the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties, and they discredit Manetho fully.
		He could have been a pharaoh any time from the twentieth dynasty on, and much suggests that he is a late king, but he now is a fixture in the twentieth and the succession of later Ramesides follow him.
		The dates of the dynasties were also decided long before any significant archaeology had been done in Egypt, and even before the hieroglyphs had been deciphered by Champollion.
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	Biblemart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ted Stewart has researched the ancient documents of Babylon and Egypt, plus the astronomical and carbon-14 dates of their kings and Pharaohs.
		These remarkable historical and scientific evidences identify the true Biblical Pharaohs of Joseph, Moses and the Exodus, all in the twelfth dynasty of Egypt.
		However, carbon-14 dating and new astronomical dating prove that the twelfth dynasty should be redated 300 years later in confirmation of the Bible dates.
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	Amazon.com: Ancient Records of Egypt: The First Through the Seventeenth Dynasties, Vol. 1: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1906, Breasted, America's first noted Egyptologist, published this series in which he presents a history of the golden age of Egypt gleaned from its records, many of which he was the first scholar to be allowed to study.
		A herculean assemblage of primary documents, many of which have deteriorated to illegibility in the intervening century, Ancient Records of Egypt illuminates both the incredible complexity of Egyptian society and the almost insuperable difficulties of reconstructing a lost civilization.
		The content of this document, remarkable as it is, is perhaps not more valuable than the revelation it furnishes of the existence of royal annals of an official character, regularly kept by the kings of Egypt in the Old Kingdom and extending back into the time of the two kingdoms of the North and South.
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	egypt alphabet and other egypt related information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		First Alphabet Found in Egypt Volume 53 Number 1, January/February 2000 by Elizabeth J. Himelfarb Along an ancient road in Egypt's western desert at the Wadi el Hol (Gulch of Terror), Yale...
		Nile-Red Sea Canal (Twelfth dynasty of Egypt) 1800 BC : Alphabet, world's oldest known 1800 BC : Berlin Mathematical Papyrus, [20], 2nd order algebraic equations 1800 BC : Moscow Mathematical Papyrus...
		The Origin of the Alphabet The original alphabet was developed by a Semitic people living in or near Egypt.* They based it on the idea developed by the Egyptians, but used their own specific symbols...
	www.nethorde.com /egypt/egypt-alphabet.html (299 words)

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