Nitocris, a possibly apocryphal Sixth Dynasty monarch, flooded a banquet hall to avenge her brother before burning her palace down to avenge her brother. For 10 points each:
[10h] Nitocris was included in a long list of kings by this Ptolemeic historian who described the genealogy of the pharaohs in his Aegyptiaca.
ANSWER: Manetho
[10m] Nitocris’s death is associated with the end of the Old Kingdom, which began with this monarch. This pharaoh built a massive step-pyramid in Saqqara, the first pyramid to function as a tomb.
ANSWER: Djoser [or Djeser or Zoser]
[10e] Nitocris flooded the banquet hall by opening a secret duct to this river. A drought preventing the regular flooding of this river is a more historically likely contributor to the decline of Egypt’s Old Kingdom.
ANSWER: Nile River
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