11 Facts About Hor-Aha

Hor-Aha is considered the second pharaoh of the First Dynasty of Egypt by some Egyptologists, while others consider him the first one and corresponding to Menes.

Hor-Aha lived around the 31st century BC and is thought to have had a long reign.

Commonly used name Hor-Aha is a rendering of the pharaoh's Horus-name, an element of the royal titulary associated with the god Horus, and is more fully given as Horus-Aha meaning Horus the Fighter.

Hor-Aha probably ascended the throne in the mid 31st century.

Hor-Aha arranged for her burial in a magnificent mastaba excavated by Jacques de Morgan.

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Finally, Hor-Aha's tomb yielded vessel fragments from the Southern Levant.

Hor-Aha had another wife, Khenthap, with whom he became father of Djer.

Hor-Aha is mentioned as Djer's mother on the Cairo Annals Stone.

Hor-Aha is believed to be wife of the late Narmer and possibly remarries one of Hor-Aha's top three Grand Viziers by the name of Rekhit after the death of Narmer.

Tomb of Hor-Aha is located in the necropolis of the kings of the 1st Dynasty at Abydos, known as the Umm el-Qa'ab.

Fragmented ebony label of Hor-Aha relating a visit of the king to the shrine of the goddess Neith of Sais in the Delta, British Museum.