King List
Historical annals are referred to as king lists, which list the rulers of a certain era or a certain country. Lists of kings exist, for example, in the form of papyri , clay tablets or blocks or on temple walls.
Five ancient Egyptian lists show kings partly with their reigns and according to dynasties . However, no complete lists of kings from ancient Egypt have survived. From Asia Minor known cuneiform -texts which the Sumerian and Babylonian - Assyrian name a ruler with the rule places and the government time and mention significant events and the names of senior officials. Your dates are - apart from the reigns before the Flood , the first King Alulim supposedly ruled 28,000 years - reliable.
While the Indian Puranas , written in Sanskrit , are partly invented, the rulers' biographies of the 24 dynasty histories from China are comparable in chronology and completeness with the lists of kings in Egypt and the Near East.
King lists to antiquity
Old Egypt
- Turin Royal Papyrus
- List of kings of Abydos (Seti I)
- List of kings of Abydos (Ramses II.)
- Saqqara King List
- Karnak King List