Aha (c. 3100 BC)
One of the earliest 1st-Dynasty rulers of a unified Egypt whose name
means ‘the fighter’. His reign is attested primarily by funerary remains at Abydos,
Saqqara and Naqada. When Flinders Petrie excavated at Umm el-Qa’ab (the Early
Dynastic cemetery at Abydos) in 1899-1900, he discovered Tomb B1915, which
contained objects bearing the name of Aha. However, the earliest of the 1st-Dyndasty
and 2nd-Dynasty élite tombs at north Saqqara (no. 3357), excavated in the
1930s, was also dated by jar-sealings to the reign of Aha. (Ian Shaw and Paul
Nicholson, The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt [New York: Henry N. Abrams,
Inc., 1995], 17)
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