Dynasty 13 (the many short-reigned kings; Sobekhotep, Neferhotep, Khendjer and others)
1773 BCE–1650 BCE · Middle-Kingdom
A summary entry for the long series of mostly short-reigned kings of Dynasty 13, more than fifty in number, who ruled from Itj-tawy and Memphis as central authority fragmented into the Second Intermediate Period. They are known largely from the damaged Turin Canon, seals, and scattered monuments, so their order, reign-lengths, and even total count are largely irrecoverable. A few, notably Neferhotep I and his brother Sobekhotep IV, reigned long enough to leave substantial monuments.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Dynasty 13 (the many short-reigned kings; Sobekhotep, Neferhotep, Khendjer and others)’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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