# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scorpion-ii
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:51:30.904Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scorpion-ii"
name: "Scorpion II"
slug: "scorpion-ii"
description: "A ruler whose name survives chiefly as a hieroglyph — a scorpion — and almost nothing else. The world before pharaohs had kings, and this one held Upper Egypt when writing was still new and crowns were local."
tagline: "Second of two kings of that name during the Protodynastic Period of Upper Egypt"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kingscorpion.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "-3500"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.953772
  currentAttention:     10.96
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Politicians"
    slug: "politicians"
  - name: "Historical Figure"
    slug: "historical-figure"
  - name: "Royalty"
    slug: "royalty"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Ancient History"
    slug: "ancient-history"
sources:
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219809"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Scorpion%20II"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A8"
    title: "الملك العقرب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%91%D0%BD_II"
    title: "Скарпіён II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD_II"
    title: "Скорпион II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roue_Krug"
    title: "Roue Krug"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus_Escorp%C3%AD_II"
    title: "Horus Escorpí II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A1l_%C5%A0t%C3%ADr"
    title: "Král Štír"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong_Skorpion"
    title: "Kong Skorpion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skorpion_II."
    title: "Skorpion II."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%92%CE%84"
    title: "Σκορπιός Β΄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus_Escorpi%C3%B3n_II"
    title: "Horus Escorpión II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus_Eskorpioi_II.a"
    title: "Horus Eskorpioi II.a"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "عقرب دوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skorpioni_II"
    title: "Skorpioni II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion_II"
    title: "Scorpion II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skorpioen_II"
    title: "Skorpioen II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rei_Escorpi%C3%B3n"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "עקרב השני (פרעה)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "II. Skorpió"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion_II"
    title: "Scorpion II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horo_Scorpione_II"
    title: "Horo Scorpione II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%94%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B32%E4%B8%96_(%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AA)"
    title: "スコルピオン2世 (ファラオ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9E%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C_II"
    title: "სკორპიონ II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%95%E1%8C%89%E1%88%B5_%E1%8C%8A%E1%8A%95%E1%8C%A5"
    title: "ንጉስ ጊንጥ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "عقرب الثاني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Scorpion II governed a slice of Upper Egypt during the Protodynastic Period, roughly 3200–3000 BCE, when the Nile valley was not yet unified and the mechanics of kingship were still taking shape. His actual name may have been Selk or Weha; the scorpion is the sign that marked him in early script. The gap between his time and the rise of the dynastic pharaohs was narrow, but he lived on the older side of it. What he did, where he ruled from, how long he lasted — the record doesn't say. He remains a glyph and a guess, a figure from the century before Egypt became Egypt.