08-05-2008, 08:07 PM
I found this on some museum website cause i was really bored.. and i thought it was funny a King/Pharoah was named Wenis...
Wenis: Fifth Dynasty. King. About 2353-2323 BCE. Wenis was the first king to have the Pyramid Texts inscribed in his tomb. His long reign of over thirty years was generally prosperous, though scenes of starving nomads survive from his causeway. Whether these people represent the first evidence of the desiccation of North Africa at this time or not cannot be determined; they may be purely symbolic of the miserable state of people who live beyond the king's power. The construction of the causeway from his valley temple to his pyramid required several earlier tombs to be dismantled and/or buried. This preserved, among others, the tombs of Kahay and Nefer, Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep. (Also known as Unas.) (item 122 in the Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids)
Wenis: Fifth Dynasty. King. About 2353-2323 BCE. Wenis was the first king to have the Pyramid Texts inscribed in his tomb. His long reign of over thirty years was generally prosperous, though scenes of starving nomads survive from his causeway. Whether these people represent the first evidence of the desiccation of North Africa at this time or not cannot be determined; they may be purely symbolic of the miserable state of people who live beyond the king's power. The construction of the causeway from his valley temple to his pyramid required several earlier tombs to be dismantled and/or buried. This preserved, among others, the tombs of Kahay and Nefer, Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep. (Also known as Unas.) (item 122 in the Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids)