Far back in the earliest history of Egypt, before Thebes and Memphis, before the sphinx and the great pyramids of Giza, lies the early dynastic period of Egypt. This period following the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt around 3,100 BC, is the first great moment in a kingdom which would last for millennia.
The early dynasties seem strange when compared to the familiar traditions of later . The mortuary cults and the obsession with the afterlife, expressed through the vast necropolises and , were all in the future.
These early kings ruled from their capital of Thinis. This legendary capital, Egypt’s first, was attested by later Egyptian historians and , but the modern world has no idea where it is.
