Examples of using Manetho in English and their translations into Vietnamese
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Manetho wrote the Aegyptiaca(History of Egypt).
He was equated with the Waphres of Manetho, who records he reigned 19 years.
Manetho calls Qa'a Biénechês and gives him a reign of 26 years.
It's interesting that the two pieces of information Manetho records about Suphis is that he built the Great Pyramid AND wrote a sacred book.
Manetho divided the long list of Pharaohs known to him into thirty dynasties, which same division we use today.
The Thirteenth Dynasty(following the Turin King List) ruled from 1802 to around 1649 BC and lasted 153 or154 years according to Manetho.
According to Manetho, the first king was Menes.
Although he was male, Netjerkare Siptah is most likely the same person as thefemale ruler Nitocris mentioned by Herodotus and Manetho.
Obviously, Manetho thought"Khéops" and"Sûphis" to be two different kings.
Since this pyramid was in fact built by Menkaure,Petrie surmised that Manetho fell victim to a tradition which had confused Menkare and Menkaure.
According to Manetho, Nepherites I ruled for six years, although his highest archaeologically attested date is his regnal year 4.[4].
Khyan is identified with king Iannas in the works of Josephus whose knowledge of the Hyksos Pharaohswas derived from a history of Egypt written by Manetho.
We must remember that Manetho had no precedent to guide him, and three thousand years of history to account for.
Josephus writes that she reigned for twenty-one years and nine months, while Africanus states her reign lasted twenty-two years,both of whom were quoting Manetho.
According to Manetho, he was the throne successor of king Bikheris, but according to archaeological evidences he rather was the successor of king Khafre.
For this reason it cannot be excluded that Thamphthis' name was originally present in this document too,since the Aegyptiacae of Manetho are mostly consistent with the Turin Canon.
Manetho states that Teti was murdered by his palace bodyguards in a harem plot, but he may have been assassinated by the usurper Userkare.
Shepseskare was also likely mentioned in the Aegyptiaca, a history of Egypt written in the3rd century BC during the reign of Ptolemy II(283- 246 BC) by the Egyptian priest Manetho.
Manetho wrote for example that according to the stelae coming from the gods of the first(real) dynasty, more than 20,000 works were attributed to Thoth(Tehuti, Hermes).
Dedumose is usually linked to Timaios[12][13] mentioned by the historian Josephus-who was quoting Manetho- as a king during whose reign an army of Asiatic foreigners subdued the country without a fight.
Manetho writes of Nitocris that she was"… braver than all the men of her time, the most beautiful of all women, fair-skinned with red cheeks".
He was likely the eighteenth dynasty king'Rathotis', who according to Manetho, an ancient historian, had reigned for nine years- a figure which conforms exactly with Flavius Josephus' generally accurate version of Manetho's Epitome.
In the Manethonian tradition of the historian Sextus Julius Africanus,who translated Manetho, Thamphthis is described as the last ruler of the 4th dynasty with a reign of nine years.
If Sheshi is to be identified with Salitis,the founder of the 15th Dynasty after Manetho, then he would have lived around 1650 BC, the date agreed upon by most Egyptologists, including Ryholt, for the arrival of the Hyksos in Egypt.
Although Manetho states the capital was at Thinis, the same as during the First Dynasty, at least the first three kings were buried at Saqqara, suggesting the center of power had moved to Memphis.
As Sibson explained، aEgyptian priest and scholar named Manetho who lived around 300 BC came in possession of a"sacred book" written by Suphis، 4th dynasty king"believed to be the same person as Khufu"، the legendary pharaoh who is believed to be the person responsible for commissioning the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Both Manetho and the Demotic Chronicle give to Psammuthes a reign length of a year, agreeing with the highest date given by archaeological records, a Mother of Apis stele recording his"Year 1, fourth month of Peret".
As Sibson explained، aEgyptian priest and scholar named Manetho who lived around 300 BC came in possession of a"sacred book" written by Suphis، 4th dynasty king"believed to be the same person as Khufu"، the legendary pharaoh who is believed to be the person responsible for commissioning the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Ryholt speculates that Manetho might have mentioned Yanassi in a now lost passage and that one possible explanation of the name Iannas used by Josephus for Khyan is a misquotation of such a passage in which the son's name was extracted instead of the father's.[10].