AResearch Of Kinglists Of Ancient Egypt In New Kingdom Period

The term‘Kinglist’is used by Egyptologists to refer to a number of ancientEgyptian lists of the names and titles of rulers, some of which also incorporateinformation concerning the length and principal events of individual reigns. As a kindof royal document,the rudiment of kinglist emerged in some seals which embedded inthe early king’s names of Early Dynastic period.The Old Kingdom period appearedthe first full-dress kinglist——the Palemo Stone, which laid the foundation of thesummary of kings. After expelling the disorder from The First Intermediate Periodand The Second Intermediate Period, the kings of ancient Egypt whose pursuit forthe‘Past’and their own legitimacy pushed themselves to reused of the kinglisttradition, which become prosperous in the New kingdom. The main lists include theAbydos Kinglist, the Saqqara Kinglist, the Karnak Kinglist and the Turin Papyrus.In the kinglist, selection of kings included those who had ruled over ancientEgypt, However, those discreditable period is omitted in the ‘actual’ history. Inaddition, gods were the main content in the kinglist. All of the surviving examplesderive from religious or funerary contexts and usually relate to the celebration of thecult of royal ancestors, whereby each king established his own legitimacy and place inthe succession by making regular offering to a list of the names of his predecessors.Kingship is the core of the ancient Egyptian civilization, preaching ‘Divine Rightof Kings’ in religion is played a great part in increasing the power of kings, whichmanifests in the kinglist is the dynasty ruled by the kings originated from the Goddynasty. Kingship comes from deity, all the department. Pursuiting for the continuityof the throne has surpassed the dynasty changes in the politics. There is no idea of‘Dynasteia’ throughout the pharaoh period. The Egyptian historian Manetho in thePtolemaic period divides up the long line of kings into thirty or thirty-one royalhouses or ‘dynasties’ according to the change of family or regional. The place ofdivision of ‘dynasteia’ in the Manetho’s kinglist always consistents with the pointwhich scribe conclude the each group of kings in the Turin canon, where scribearrange the generations of pharaoh according to the change of family or place of residence. In a sense, kinglists provide some clues for the ‘dynasteia’ of ancientEgypt.