Ruler
Khasekhemwy
Last king of the Second Dynasty
c. 2700 – 2686 BCE
Biography
His serekh is topped by both Horus and Seth; his name means roughly "the two powers appear". He built a huge mudbrick funerary enclosure at Abydos that still stands, and a tomb that is the largest of the early royal tombs there.
Two seated statues of him were found at Hierakonpolis, their bases carved with defeated enemies.
Key facts
Certainty: Established
Khasekhemwy’s serekh is surmounted by both the Horus falcon and the Seth animal.
- Toby A. H. Wilkinson (1999) “Early Dynastic Egypt” Routledge