The First Dynasty of Egypt is the first series of kings to rule a unified Egypt, following the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt traditionally credited to Menes, or Narmer. It opens the Early Dynastic Period, when power was centred at Thinis, and it falls within the early Bronze Age. Scholars still debate its dates; estimates place its start between the thirty-fourth and thirtieth centuries BC, and radiocarbon studies have dated the accession of its second king Hor-Aha to around 3100 BC. Its kings were buried at Abydos, and the dynasty's artifacts show captured foreigners and the use of human sacrifice in royal funerary ritual.
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