Karnak King List

The Karnak King List is a carved stone record of early Egyptian rulers, commissioned during the reign of Thutmose III and set into the walls of the Festival Hall he built at the Karnak temple complex in modern Luxor. It originally named sixty-one kings beginning with Sneferu of the Old Kingdom, though only thirty-nine names remain legible today, and unusually for an Egyptian king list it preserves rulers of the First and Second Intermediate Periods who are missing from most other such lists. British traveler James Burton first described the list in 1825, and in 1843 the French adventurer Emile Prisse d'Avennes had the inscribed blocks removed overnight and shipped to France, where the damaged remains are now held at the Louvre in Paris. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/