id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3491 Mentuhotep II - Wikipedia .html text/html 6628 885 78 Mentuhotep II (Ancient Egyptian: Mn-ṯw-ḥtp, meaning "Mentu is satisfied"), also known under his prenomen Nephepetre (Ancient Egyptian: Nb-ḥpt-Rˁ, meaning "The Lord of the rudder is Ra"), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh circa 2061–2010 BCE, the sixth ruler of the Eleventh Dynasty. After the Herakleopoitan kings desecrated the sacred ancient royal necropolis of Abydos in Upper Egypt in the fourteenth year of Mentuhotep's reign, the pharaoh dispatched his armies north to conquer Lower Egypt. Continuing his father Intef III's conquests, Mentuhotep succeeded in unifying his country, probably shortly before his 39th year on the throne.[5][6] Following and in recognition of the unification, in regnal year 39, he changed his titulary to Shematawy (Ancient Egyptian: Šmˁ-tȝ.w(j), meaning "He who unifies the two lands").[7] They were priestesses of Hathor[20] and each of them was buried in a single pit dug under the terrace of Mentuhotep II's temple.[21][22] Note that an alternative theory holds that Henhenet was one of Intef III's secondary wives, possibly the mother of Neferu II. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3491.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3491.txt