King Mina

King Mina orMini

He united the two countries, meaning the two kingdoms of North and South Egypt, around 3200 BC.

And a title for this great merit with several titles such as (King of the Two Lands, the owner of the two crowns, the southern eagle, the northern snake).

 The name Mina in some ancient Egyptian writings as (Mini), and then the Egyptians lettered the name to Mina

The word (mini) means in the ancient Egyptian language "to establish or commend."

King Mina

King Mina is considered the founder of the First Pharaonic Dynasty.

 Mina thought of choosing a site in the middle of the kingdoms of the North and the South in order to be able to rule from it, so he built a castle surrounded by a white wall, and he called it (from-nefar), meaning the beautiful port or white barren, which part of which is still left until now, and it was "who fled", The capital of Egypt in the era of the Old Kingdom, then the Greeks named it after that Memphis or Rams Road

During the reign of Narmer, Egypt had an active economic presence in southern Canaan, pottery sherds were discovered in many sites, both from pots made in Egypt and imported to Canaan and others that were made according to the Egyptian style but without local materials.

 This recent discovery led to the conclusion that the Egyptian presence in Canaan was colonial and not merely a result of trade, while the Egyptian presence in Canaan was explained as a result of a military invasion.

 The fortifications in Tal al-Sakan date back to this period and the Egyptian building style indicates a military presence, if not a military invasion.

The extent of Egyptian activity in southern Canaan is shown by the discovery of 33 serekhs on pottery sherds in the sites in Canaan that date back to the pre-dynastic era to the beginning of the First Dynasty, thirteen of which belong to Pharaoh Narmer, and came from six different locations: Tell Arad, Ain Habsur, The hill of residence, the Lyd, one of the additional serekhat is attributed to the pharaoh Ka, and only one belongs to Hor Aha, the remainder of the serekhat either bears any name or has a name that does not belong to any known pharaoh.

During the summer of 1994, an excavation expedition in Nahal Tilah, southern Israel, discovered ceramic sherds inscribed with the Serekh sign belonging to King Narmer. These sherds were found on a large circular platform, and possibly the foundations of a storage silo on the balcony of Haifa, dating back to about 3000 BC, and from Then studies conducted on the sherds concluded that they were part of the wine jar that was imported from the Nile Valley to the land of Canaan.

After about 200 years of active Egyptian presence in Canaan, which reached its climax during the reign of Narmer, and then went down quickly after that, it is believed that his wife Nabethotep, a princess from Lower Egypt.

Narmer palette:

Founded by the British scientist Koebel in Hirakonpolis near Edfu in 1988, it is of green schist stone, and it is considered one of the first historical paintings, which is an inscription on one side of a drawing representing King Narmer with a crown of the tribal white face on his head, and he holds his right hand with a harness, and grips with his left hand On the corner of a prisoner of captives, perhaps a resident of the Delta or a peninsula, and in front of him Horis, the idol of the tribe, standing over the head of a captive.

There is also in the painting under the foot of Horis, the idol of the tribe, an expression indicating that the number of prisoners is six thousand, and at the bottom of this face of the tablet is a drawing of two prisoners preparing to escape from a castle.

As for the other side, which is the most important from the historical point of view, the image of the king is inscribed on it crowned with the red crown of the sea face, and in front of it the flags of the tribes that united with him, leading them over the tribe that united the kingdom, and next to those flags are bodies separated from them heads, and at the bottom of the tablet is a drawing representing the king in the form A broken bull destroys the enemy and destroys fortresses.

The death of King Mina:

Mina took advantage of one of his visits to “Memphis” and decided to spend some time practicing his favorite hobby of hunting birds, monsters and fish in the forests of the delta near Memphis.

On a fine day, the king accompanied some of his private guards and a group of his close friends, and went out for hunting and hunting as usual, and lured them into the abundance of hunting, so they penetrated the bushes.

The king was daring and brave despite his old age, so he started approaching the prey with his spear wielding, trying to kill it with one blow, but he missed the target, so the Persians attacked him brutally and ferociously and killed him for his watch, after the king shouted a terrible cry echoed between the sides of the guard, so the guard and friends rushed to the scene of the accident , But after it was too late, but they killed the seahorse, and then transported the king’s body to his palace in the city of Memphis, where the priests mummified and shrouded the body.

This process took more than seventy days, then they placed the body in a stone sarcophagus, which was transported in a solemn ceremony to one of the ships anchored in the port, which immediately sailed it to the king's capital in the south, and when the body reached the city, the priests carried it to the temple, 

where the people gathered Sad to bid farewell to his beloved king