id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8867 Sekhemkhet - Wikipedia .html text/html 2805 537 77 Sekhemkhet (also read as Sechemchet) was an ancient Egyptian king (pharaoh) of the 3rd Dynasty during the Old Kingdom. The royal Turin Canon attributes six years of reign to Sekhemkhet,[2] a figure also proposed by Myriam Wissa based on the unfinished state of Sekhemkhet's pyramid.[3] Using his reconstruction of the Palermo Stone (5th Dynasty), Toby Wilkinson assigns seven years to this king. This figure is based on the number of year registers preserved in Cairo Fragment I, register V.[4] Wilkinson states that "this figure is fairly certain, since the [king's] titulary begins immediately after the dividing line marking the change of reign.".[5] Similarly, the historian Manetho lists Sekhemkhet under the name of Tyreis and indicates that he reigned for seven years. Nabil Swelim, by contrast, proposed a reign of nineteen years, because he believed that Sekhemkhet might be the Tosertasis mentioned by Manetho.[6] However, such a long reign is at odds with the unfinished state of the buried pyramid and this view is generally rejected by Egyptologists. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8867.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8867.txt