Egyptian civilization

"HITHERTO Menes, the traditional founder of the First Dynasty of Egypt, although regularly cited in the native Egyptian king-lists from the old chronology of Sety I downwards to Manetho as the founder of the First Dynasty in Egypt, has been no shadowy and so little known, that notwithstanding the discovery of his "tomb," with contemporary inscriptions, by Sir Flinders Petrie in the royal cemeteries at Abydos in 1900, he is still regarded by the latest historical text-books as "a conflate personage of legend.""