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Menes
Founder of Manetho's 1st dynasty and unifier of Egypt / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Menes was a pharaoh of the first dynasty of ancient Egypt. He lived ca. 3100-3000 BC. He brought together Upper and Lower Egypt to make an empire. He wore the Pschent or double crown: the white crown of Upper Egypt and the red crown of Lower Egypt. He built the city of Memphis and made it the capital.
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There is a lot of archeological evidence that there was a pharaoh named Narmer, but little evidence for a pharaoh named Menes.[1] It is now believed that Menes was either Narmer, the pharaoh before Narmer, or Hor-Aha, who ruled after him.
More than 2000 years later Manetho, an Egyptian historian, wrote that Menes ruled for 62 years and was killed by a hippopotamus.
An image of Menes holding an ankh is on the frieze on the south wall of the U.S. Supreme Court building.[2]