Archery was widespread by the time of the earliest pharaohs and was practiced both for hunting and use in warfare.

The name "Kakau" itself is problematic for this early pharaoh, as there was no name source from Nebra's time that could have been used to form the word.

The ship dating to 3000 BC was about 25 m, 75 feet long and is now thought to perhaps have belonged to an earlier pharaoh.

Some of the oldest examples are from the labels of the early pharaohs.

Some believe the earlier pharaohs existed historically, while others believe that their inclusion in the list has only ideological value (i.e., there must have been disorder before order).

The haunting evidence has lain buried for ages in the parched sands of Abydos, resting place of the earliest pharaohs known to history.

Also, chapter 33 makes reference to look-alikes of an earlier pharaoh, Ramses the Great.

A principal purpose of it was the adoration of the early pharaohs, whose cemetery, for which it forms a great funerary chapel, lies behind it.

Umm el-Qa'ab, is a royal necropolis at Abydos, Egypt where early pharaohs were entombed.

But Diodorus himself probably added the titles used of Gelon; in the same way he regularly gives his early Egyptian pharaohs the hellenistic royal virtues.