The Second Dynasty of Egypt belongs to the Early Dynastic Period, when the newly unified kingdom was consolidating its institutions, and it followed the First Dynasty. Its kings, among them Hotepsekhemwy, Raneb and Nynetjer, were buried at Saqqara, while later rulers returned to Abydos. The dynasty is poorly documented, and Egyptologists disagree about the order of several kings. Peribsen used the god Seth rather than Horus in his royal name, which some read as a religious or political split, and Khasekhemwy appears to have restored unity and left a large mud-brick enclosure at Abydos. The dynasty is seen as a transitional phase that prepared the ground for the Old Kingdom and the age of the pyramids.
Before and after
- c. 3,000 BCECuneiform
- from c. 3,000 BCE to 1,800 BCEIndus Valley Civilization
- from c. 3,000 BCE to 2,240 BCEEbla
- from 30th century BCE to 18th century BCEMari
- from c. 2,890 BCE to 2,686 BCESecond Dynasty of Egypt
- from c. 2,707 BCE to 2,216 BCEOld Kingdom of Egypt
- from c. 2,700 BCE to 539 BCEElam
- c. 2,700 BCEConstruction of Bent Pyramid
- from c. 2,686 BCE to 2,613 BCEThird Dynasty of Egypt
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The era
This moment belongs to the Ancient civilizations (3,200 BCE to 500 CE), writing, cities and empires.