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 and teachers of other traditions 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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