Amenemhat I (Part 2): Father and Son. Around 1985 BCE, King Amenemhat I ruled with skill and sense. His reign was a time of new developments, epitomised in the foundation of a new capital city. Strangely, the King decided to name his new capital "Seizing the Two Lands."
- Date c. 1985 BCE.
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Select Bibliography:
- Dorothea Arnold, “Amenemhat I and the Early Twelfth Dynasty at Thebes,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, 1991.
- Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, 2006.
- Wolfram Grajetzki. Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom. 2009.
- Gay Robins. The Art of Ancient Egypt. 2008.
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