person - (ca. 2925 BCE) Legendary first Pharaoh of Upper and Lower Egypt, who unified the two kingdoms and established his capital at Memphis. Modern scholarship suggests that the figure of Menes was either one of, or possibly a combination of, three different pharaohs who ruled around this time.

Legendary first king of unified Egypt.

Menes was an Egyptian pharaoh of the First dynasty, to some authors the founder of this dynasty, to others the Second. He lived ca. 3100-3000 BC.