=Menȧ=, the Menes of the Greeks, was the first dynastic king of Egypt, and has been identified by some with king =Āḥa= 𓂚, whose tomb was discovered in 1897 at Abydos. Nothing is known of his reign from the monuments, but a tradition preserved by Greek writers declared that he altered the course of the Nile, and so redeemed from the river a large tract upon which he built the first city of Memphis. Among the objects in the British Museum bearing the name of =Āḥa= may be mentioned some =clay sealings= for small wine-jars, a portion of an =ivory box=, and parts of two =ebony tablets=. (Table-case L in the Third Egyptian Room.) 𓅃𓉘𓐼𓂚𓐽𓊂 ĀḤA. 𓅃𓉘𓐼𓆢𓍋𓐽𓊂 NĀR-MER. =Tetȧ=, or =Ȧtet=, was the successor of Menȧ, according to the King Lists. In recent years this king has been identified by some with a king whose name is provisionally read =Nār-mer=; others, however, take the view that Nār-mer is one of the names of Betchau, a king of the IInd dynasty. 𓅃𓉘𓐼𓏄𓐽𓊂 KHENT. 𓅃𓉘𓐼𓆓𓐽𓊂 TCHA. The next two kings were =Ȧteth= and =Ȧta=, but of their reigns nothing is known; according to some authorities we are to identify King =Khent= with the former, and King =Tcha= with the latter. There are several small objects in the British Museum inscribed with the name of =Tcha= (Table-case L), and several jar-sealings (Wall-case on Landing). 𓅃𓉘𓐼𓂧𓈖𓐽𓊂 ṬEN. The reign of the next king =Semti= 𓈉𓐰𓈉, or =Ṭen=, formerly known as =Ḥesepti= 𓈈𓐰𓈈, was important. A legend preserved in the Book of the Dead states that the short form of the LXIVth Chapter of that work was “found” during his reign; and on the tablet exhibited in Table-case L, Third Egyptian Room (No. 124), the king is represented dancing before a god, who wears the White Crown and is seated within a shrine placed on the top of a flight of steps. As in later texts Osiris is called “the god on the steps,” and the White Crown is one of his most characteristic emblems, we are probably justified in identifying the figure in the shrine with that of Osiris. It is probable that the =worship of Osiris= assumed an importance in the reign of Semti hitherto unknown, and that it was at this period that the cult of this god began to displace the =worship of ancestors=, which, up to that time, appears to have been general. It is clear that tradition assigned to his reign a period of literary activity. The name of Semti also occurs in connexion with a recipe in a =book of medicine= for driving the disease _ukhedu_ out of the body. (For objects bearing his name see Table-case L, and for wine-jar sealings see Wall-cases on Landing.) [Illustration: King Semti dancing before the god who wears the White Crown.] The sixth king of this dynasty was =Āṭȧb=, or =Ātchȧb=, otherwise known as Merpeba, or =Merbapen=. (For a number of objects bearing his names see Table-case L and Wall-cases on Landing.)