1st Dynasty

Fact 1 on 1st Dynasty:

The Predynastic warriors in the Nile Delta of Lower Egypt, led by the ancient kings such as Scorpion, made the first moves to subdue the population of disparate settlements and quarrelsome leaders in their attempt to merge the area under one ruler.
 

Fact 2 on 1st Dynasty:

King Narmer (also refer to Menes) established the 1st Egyptian Dynasty
 

Fact 3 on 1st Dynasty:

King Narmer and his son King Hor-Aha built the city of Memphis in Lower Egypt in which he established as his capital, building a great palace on the site.
 

Fact 4 on 1st Dynasty:

Narmer is the name of the king who is depicted on this ancient artefact known as the Narmer Palette.
 

Fact 5 on 1st Dynasty:

The first kings who followed Narmer continued military campaigns aimed at the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.
 

Fact 6 on 1st Dynasty:

The kings of the period then conducted military campaigns in the desert areas that bordered Upper Egypt and these campaigns extended into the Sinai.
 

Fact 7 on 1st Dynasty:

The Asian inhabitants of the desert areas were nomadic tribes of Bedouins. Conflicts between the Bedouins and the Egyptians were fiercely fought as the Egyptians needed to keep control of the quarries and mines in the desert areas.
 

Fact 8 on 1st Dynasty:

The Eastern Desert, that bordered on the Red Sea, was inhabited by tribes of nomads called Troglodytes.
 

Fact 9 on 1st Dynasty:

The capital of Egypt changed from Memphis to Thinis during this era.
 

Fact 10 on 1st Dynasty:

King Den is recorded as quelling the Troglodytes on the Palermo Stone.
 

Fact 11 on 1st Dynasty:

An ivory label from the period also shows Den 'smiting an Asiatic'. The label bears  the inscription 'first time of striking the easterners' and shows Den with a mace held above his head about to club an Asiatic chief.
 

Fact 12 on 1st Dynasty:

The stone quarried in the mines of the desert were put to use by the early pharaohs who initiated the building of great monuments and tombs, a tradition that would continue for over 3000 years.
 

Fact 13 on 1st Dynasty:

Den's tomb at Abydos was part of a large burial complex. The tomb itself is the earliest example of stone built architecture found in ancient Egypt.
 

Fact 14 on 1st Dynasty:

The large burial complexes held the bodies of those sacrificed with the kings of the era. Human sacrifice and animal sacrifice both played a part in the funerary rituals. 
 

Fact 15 on 1st Dynasty:

The funerary rituals involving animal and human sacrifice were due to the religious belief that the pharaoh would require servants and animals in the Afterlife.
 

Fact 16 on 1st Dynasty:

The practise of human sacrifice ceased at the end of the first dynasty of pharaohs when 'shabtis' took the place of actual people. Shabtis were small funerary statuettes that were placed in tombs to perform tasks for the deceased in the afterlife.