Turin King List

Turin King List
Createdc. 1245 BC
Discovered1820
Thebes, Ottoman Egypt
Discovered byBernardino Drovetti
Present locationTurin, Piedmont, Italy

The Turin King List, also known as the Turin Royal Canon, is an ancient Egyptian hieratic papyrus thought to date from the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II (r. 1279–1213 BC), now in the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin. The papyrus is the most extensive list available of kings compiled by the ancient Egyptians, and is the basis for most Egyptian chronology before the reign of Ramesses II. The list records more than 200 kings, but not all names have survived.

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