# Manetho

> An Egyptian priest under the Ptolemies who wrote the first Greek history of Egypt — and then vanished. Every line of his original text is lost, but the fragments copied by later writers became the backbone of Egyptian chronology for two thousand years.

*3rd-century BC Egyptian historian and priest*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** -201
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Manetho lived in the early third century BCE, during the opening years of the Hellenistic period, when Greek-speaking rulers sat on the throne of Egypt. A priest writing under Ptolemy I or II, he composed the Aegyptiaca — a history of Egypt in Greek — sometime between 285 and 246 BCE. The original work did not survive antiquity. What remains are fragments quoted by later classical and late antique authors, second-hand transmissions of a text no one can read whole. Until hieroglyphs were deciphered in the early 19th century, those fragments were the primary window into Egyptian chronology. They still matter in Egyptology today, a ghost text holding up the scaffold of an entire ancient timeline.

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## Topics
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## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manetho)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174380)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Manetho)
- [مانيتون](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86)
- [Манефон](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD)
- [Манетон](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD)
- [Manetó](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manet%C3%B3)
- [Manehto](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manehto)
- [Манефон](https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD)
- [Manethon](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manethon)
- [Manetho](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manetho)
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- [Manetono](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manetono)
- [Manetón](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manet%C3%B3n)
- [Maneton](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneton)
- [مانثون](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%86)
- [Manetho](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manetho)
- [Manéthon de Sebennytos](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%C3%A9thon_de_Sebennytos)
- [Manetón](https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manet%C3%B3n)
- [מנתון](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9F)
- [Maneton](https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneton)
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- [Manetho](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manetho)
- [Maneþon](https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mane%C3%BEon)
- [Manetho](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manetho)
- [مانيثون](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%86)

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