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Aha's campaign against Nubia
Aha's campaign against Nubia was a military action by Hor-Aha, an early First Dynasty king of Egypt, recorded on a year label from his tomb at Abydos.
Construction of the First Dynasty royal tombs at Umm el-Qaab
The First Dynasty royal tombs at Umm el-Qaab are the mudbrick tombs of Egypt's earliest kings at Abydos, ringed by subsidiary graves of sacrificed retainers and paired with funerary enclosures.
Construction of the Saqqara elite mastabas of Dynasty 1
The construction of the Saqqara elite mastabas of Dynasty 1 built huge mud-brick elite tombs at North Saqqara during Egypt's First Dynasty, mainly under Djet, Den, and Adjib.
Den's campaigns against the Bedouin
Den's campaigns against the Bedouin were First Dynasty Egyptian expeditions led by King Den against eastern desert nomads, recorded on ivory labels and Sinai rock reliefs.
Djer's campaign to Nubia
Djer's campaign to Nubia was a First Dynasty Egyptian military expedition into Lower Nubia around 3000 BC, known from a rock relief at Gebel Sheikh Suleiman.
Khasekhemwy's campaign against Nubia
Khasekhemwy's campaign against Nubia was a military action in Nubia by Khasekhemwy, last king of Egypt's Second Dynasty, after he reunified Egypt in the Early Dynastic period.
Khasekhemwy's suppression of the northern revolt
Khasekhemwy's suppression of the northern revolt was a late Second Dynasty campaign ending Egypt's civil conflict, recorded on statue bases with tallies of 47,209 and 48,205 slain.
Naqada expansion into Lower Egypt
The Naqada expansion into Lower Egypt, also called the Lower Egyptian–Naqada Transition, was the spread of Upper Egyptian Naqada culture into the Nile Delta from about 3350 BC, ending in unification around 3100 BC.
Reign of Crocodile
Horus Crocodile is a putative ruler of Dynasty 0 in ancient Egypt, proposed by Günter Dreyer from ink inscriptions at Tarkhan, though his existence is disputed.
Reign of Den
Den, throne name Semti, was a First Dynasty king of Egypt who ruled in the twenty-ninth century BCE, the first attested with the title King of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Unification of Egypt
The unification of Egypt, also called the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, joined the two lands under one king around 3100 BC, associated with Narmer and Menes.