20: Expeditions and Explorers

The Great Explorer. Around 2300 BCE, King Pepy I died. His successor was a man named Mer-en-Re ("Beloved of Re"). In this period, the explorer Weni the Elder continued his travels, now going far south into Sudan on missions for the King...

• Date c.2300 BCE.
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Select Bibliography:

Kelsey Museum Newsletter – ⁠Abydos and the Tomb of Weni the Elder⁠.

Davis, S. L., & Richards, J. (2020). Weni Rediscovered: An International Team Comes Together to Offer a Fresh Look at an Ancient Life. Scribe, 6, 8--15. OEB.

Eyre, C. J. (1994). Weni’s career and Old Kingdom historiography. In C. Eyre, A. Leahy, & L. M. Leahy (Eds.), The unbroken reed: Studies in the culture and heritage of ancient Egypt in honour of A. F. Shore (pp. 107–124). Egypt Exploration Society.

Renée Friedman, Egypt and Nubia: Gifts of the Desert, 2002.

William Kelly Simpson (editor), The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2003.

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