Years -2360

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Events

Mérenrê {{Ier}} reign five or six years. Pépi II, his/her half-brother, wire of Ânkhnesmérirê {{II}}, second girl of Khoui, goes up on the throne at the age of six years and reign 94 years. This interminable reign (longest known of the History) will undoubtedly contribute to the dislocation of the Old empire by solidifying the institutions (heredity of the functions, increased capacity of the local senior officials (Nomarque) to the detriment of monarchy).

Under Pépi {{II}}, the tombs of the senior officials of the central administration, surrounding the royal funerary complex with Saqqarah, are relatively modest, of importance less or equal to those of nomarques of province, signs confirmed by many other indices of the rise of autonomies of the provincial administrations and appearance of centrifugal forces. Important provincial centers develop on average and High-Egypt (necropolis of Meir, Deir el-Gabraoui, Abydos, Coptos, Dendérah, Edfou, Assouan). The royal institution seeks to react by creating a load of “governor of the South”.

dynastic Crisis after the long reign of Pépi {{II}}, involving a fast collapse of the central level of the capacity.

Egyptian Temple with Byblos under Pépi {{II}}, attesting the existence of an important Egyptian colony.

Egyptian Forwardings towards the Nubie and the Country of Pount (Ethiopia) under Pépi {{II}}.

the prince Hirkhouf, governor of the South, organizes four forwardings in Africa on the order of the kings Mérenrê {{Ier}} and Pépi {{II}}. It advances beyond the Nubie, in direction of the Darfur (Pays of Iam), following unknown tracks and brings back many richnesses (including one Pygmy).
Under Pépi {{II}}, the prince of Aswan Mekhou, on the other hand, is killed during a forwarding beyond the 2nd cataract. His/her Sebni son will seek the body of his father.
Always under Pépi {{II}}, the noble one of Éléphantine Pépinakht carries out two forwardings in Nubie to pacify the country.
the forwarding of the commander Ânankhet is decimated by the nomads of the desert (Âamou) whereas it built a ship to go to the Pays of Pount.
Pépinakht will lead a punitive forwarding against Âamou. It is certainly at this time there that one will create a waterway between the the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, by the arms of the the Nile and the channels. Certain boats left even Byblos, which avoided the transport of wood until Memphis.

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