id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4825 Amenemhat I - Wikipedia .html text/html 3015 573 77 Amenemhat I (Middle Egyptian: jmn-m-ḥꜣt; /jaˈmaːnumaˌħuːʀiʔ/) also Amenemhet I and the hellenized form Ammenemes, was the first ruler of the Twelfth Dynasty, the dynasty considered to be the golden-age of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. Amenemhet I was not of royal lineage, born to Senusret and Nefert who were Nomarchs of one of Egypt's many provinces.[5] The composition of some literary works (the Prophecy of Neferti,[6] the Instructions of Amenemhat[7]) and, in architecture, the reversion to the pyramid-style complexes of the 6th dynasty rulers are often considered to have been attempts at legitimizing his rule. Amenemhat I's Horus name, Wehemmesu, which means renaissance or rebirth, is an allusion to the Old Kingdom period, whose cultural icons and models (such as pyramidal tombs and Old Kingdom artistic motifs) were emulated by the Twelfth Dynasty kings after the end of the First Intermediate Period. "Egypt: Amenemhat I, 1st King of the 12th Dynasty". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4825.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4825.txt