Narmer

I confess I don't think I had ever heard of Narmer, Aha or Djer, though they are the first of a very famous sequence.

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There is a huge amount of detail here, covering three and a half millennia (including the Pharaohs of the First Dynasty - Narmer, Aha, Djer, Djen, Den, Anedjib, Semerkhet and Qaa).

August Books 50) The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt (edited by A.J. Spencer) astraether 2009

Actually my fighting career got its start fighting with my old drinking buddy Narmer in the Nile Delta.

"But it grieves my heart, love/To see you tryin' to be a part of/A world that just don't exist ..." Ann Althouse 2009

Narmer screamed, in the language of his alien forbears, I feel.

I feel « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts 2008

Perhaps Narmer wielded a large Nile catfish, Clarias?, grasping the tail and using it as a sort of black jack to stun the zombies, then removed their heads with a chisel.

Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis 2007

Decapitated bodies on the front of the Narmer palette: overview shows Narmer, at left, with catfish and chisel motifs at top center.

Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis 2007

On the other hand, in support of the earlier date, some have claimed that the famous Palette of Narmer (ca. 3000 B.C.), also from Hierakonpolis, far from recording a victory in the war of unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, is instead a celebration of the successful repulse of a zombie attack.

Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis 2007

I still get goosebumps when I look at the Narmer Palette and the scene where the pharaoh is about to smite his enemy up-side the head.

More Scripture To Live By Christopher O'Brien 2006

Menes (the Pharaoh Narmer, who united Upper and Lower Egypt five thousand years ago) through the Ottoman rulers down to Anwar al-Sadat, killed in 1981, shortly before the novel was written.

Naguib Mahfouz – The Son of Two Civilizations 2003

The palette was thought to celebrate the unification of the two lands after a bloody battle won by Narmer, who marched forth from his capital of Hierakonpolis in about 3100 B.C. and, with his victory over the Delta people, inaugurated Egypt's 1st Dynasty.

City of the Hawk 2003