Stork may have been an ancient Egyptian ruler (pharaoh) from the pre-dynastic period of Egypt.list. Pharoh listPrädynastische Zeit Frühzeit und Altes Reich.Jürgen Schraten, Zur Aktualität von Jan Assmann: Einleitung in sein Werk (Springer-Verlag, 11.11.2010) page 59. Most modern scholars, however, doubt that he ever existed.Barry Kemp (a1), Andrew Boyce and James Harrell, The Colossi from the Early Shrine at Coptos in Egypt, in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal Volume 10, Issue 2, April 2000, p. 233; Jochem Kahl (2006): inscriptional Evidence For The Relative Chronology Of Dyns. 0–2 In: Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, And David A. Warburton (editors), Ancient Egyptian ChronologyBrill: Leiden, Boston, , p. 96
Very little is known of his rule due to a scarcity of archeological evidence and a lack of written records. The dates and geographic extent of his rule are not known. His actual name is unknown though he used the stork hieroglyph to denote himself.
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