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Ix Egyptian Dynasty The IX Egyptian dynasty is located within the historical phase defined as the first intermediate period and develops, together with the subsequent X dynasty, in the years from 2160 BC. to 2040 B.C. [1]. History Edit For this period the sources we have available are extremely limited and fragmentary. The royal lists of Abydos and Saqqara completely ignore this dynasty, the Royal Canon is severely damaged in the fourth column and only a few names of a total of about 18 (IX and X dynasties) remain legible. The list of Manetones only reports: ... 19 kings of Heracleopolis, who reigned for 409 years. Akhthoes, the first of these, more terrible than they have ever been before, caused illness to all those who were in Egypt but later fell victim to insanity and was destroyed by a crocodile. The few contemporary documents seem to confirm that this dynasty, like the X, had Heracleopolis Magna as its capital and that its control over Egypt was not complete. It is probable that some rulers belonging to this dynasty reigned at the same time as the last dynasties of the VIII dynasty and together with the rulers of the X dynasty and perhaps some of the XI