EGYPT 523 - AMENEMHET I - (by Egyptahotep)

Описание: AMENEMHET I : The First Pharaoh of the XII Dynasty:
Mentuhotep IV (last king of Dynasty XI) had not offspring.
but apparently named to Amenemhet I (who was his vizier) as his successor.
So,Amenemhet I became the first pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty.
Amenemhet I was pharaoh for nearly 30 years and during his reign Egypt was divided again in two, a period known as "The War of the Two Lands".(remember the X Dyn was Herakleoplolitan and later Mentuhotep (Dyn XI,theban Dinasty)ruled and unify the country but was still having problems) the north did not want to recognize the authority of the south,(and viceversa).
that resulted in the assassination of Amenemhet I ,just before he could celebrate his first festival heb sed (30 years in the throne). Amenemhet Iwas assassinated by his bodyguard. the facts of his assassination are narrated in two later stories.
one is called "the king Amenemhet's instructions" (which dates from the period of Senusret III) and the other is "the story of Sinue" (dated at the middle of the XII dynasty).
The murder occurred just before the king could celebrate his first Heb-Sed, at night while he was sleeping, when the noise of fight between his personal guard against the conspirators (also part of his personal guard),Awoke Amenemhet I,
Still sleepy the old man could take his weapons,but could not defend himself.
The first pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty had just been assassinated.
At that time his son and successor senusret I was in the battle front against the Libyans, and when he found out of these facts, he returned immediately to the court to organize the change of power.
Senusret I got the reunification of Egypt and so finish "the war of the two lands" that had ended with his father,
Amenemhet I and Senusret I built their pyramids in El Lisht