Pharaoh Menkaure The length of Menkaure's reign is uncertain. The ancient historian Manetho credits him with a rulership of 63 y
The length of Menkaure's reign is uncertain. The ancient historian Manetho credits him with a rulership of 63 years, but this is surely an exaggeration. The Turin Canon is damaged at the spot where it should present the full sum of years, but the remains allow a reconstruction of “..?.. + 8 years of rulership”. Egyptologists think that an 18 year rulership was meant to be written, which is generally accepted. A contemporary workmen´s graffito reports about the “year after the 11th cattle count”. If the cattle count was held every second year (as was tradition at least up to king Sneferu), Menkaure might have ruled for 22 years
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