Dynasties 9-10 (the Herakleopolitan kings; the Khetys and Merikare)
2160 BCE–2025 BCE · First-Intermediate
A summary entry for the Herakleopolitan kings who ruled the north during the First Intermediate Period (Dynasties 9-10), the line of Khety (Akhtoy) ending with Merikare, while a rival Theban line rose in the south. They are known largely through the literary Instruction for Merikare, a wisdom-text addressed to the king rather than a chronicle, so their reigns and order are loose. The overlap with the Theban Dynasty 11 is itself uncertain.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Dynasties 9-10 (the Herakleopolitan kings; the Khetys and Merikare)’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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