Senebkay

Senebkay ( other spellings Senebkai, Seneb Kay ) was an Egyptian king of the Second Intermediate Period, which held about 1650 BC a few years Middle Egypt against the front Asian Hyksos invaders. His throne name was User - ib- Re ( Weser- ib- Re / Woser - ib- Re).

Senebkay was known for his 2014 grave discovered in Abydos, which was discovered during excavations by the Penn Museum of the University of Pennsylvania in cooperation with Egypt 's Supreme Council of Antiquities, headed by Joseph Wegner. The ruler appears likely in the Royal Canon of Turin, where the remains are preserved several names that can be reconstructed to User - ib- re ( Weser- ib- Re). His grave is relatively small and has been found robbed. The grave chamber is painted and shows a false door and various goddesses. The skeleton of Senebkay was found in the remains of the coffin.

Near the tomb of Senebkay shortly before that of the 80 years before that ruling Sobekhotep was discovered I..