The Great Explorer. Around 2300 BCE, King Pepy I died. His successor was a man named Mer-en-Re ("Beloved of Re"). In this period, the explorer Weni the Elder continued his travels, now going far south into Sudan on missions for the King...

Date c.2300 BCE.
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Select Bibliography:

Kelsey Museum Newsletter – Abydos and the Tomb of Weni the Elder.
Renée Friedman, Egypt and Nubia: Gifts of the Desert, 2002.
William Kelly Simpson (editor), The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2003.

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Episode 20: Expeditions and Explorers