id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-751 Sanakht - Wikipedia .html text/html 2635 520 72 Sanakht (also read as Hor-Sanakht) is the Horus name of an ancient Egyptian king (pharaoh) of the Third Dynasty during the Old Kingdom. While Sanakht's existence is attested by seal fragments from mastaba K2 at Beit Khallaf and a graffito, his position as the founder of the Third Dynasty, as recorded by Manetho and the Turin Canon, has been seriously undermined by recent archaeological discoveries at Abydos. Presently, the dominant theory is that Sanakht's reign dates to the later Third Dynasty, after Djoser. Egyptologists Toby Wilkinson, Stephan Seidlmayer, Kenneth Kitchen and Rainer Stadelmann equate Sanakht with "Nebka", a name appearing in Ramesside king lists. The Turin Canon, for instance, was transcribed on papyri that dates to the reign of the New Kingdom king, Ramesses II, who ruled Egypt from 1279–1213 BC. ^ Ilaria Incordino: Reign of Horus Sanakht: possible founder of the Third Dynasty. Egyptian kings: Sanakht ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-751.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-751.txt