Scorpion I

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NAME	Scorpion I
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	{{{Alt}}}
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Pharaoh of Egypt
DATE OF BIRTH	{{{Birth}}}
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ancient Egypt
DATE OF DEATH	{{{Death}}}
PLACE OF DEATH	Ancient Egypt

Scorpion I
Preceded by: Unknown	Pharaoh of Egypt Protodynastic	Succeeded by: Double Falcon
Burial	Possibly Umm el-Qa'ab, Abydos

Scorpion I was the first of two kings so-named of Upper Egypt during the Protodynastic Period. His name may refer to the scorpion goddess Serket.

He is believed to have lived a few decades or so before the rule of the better known King Scorpion at Abydos. The first-known predynastic king, he may have been a local ruler of the Nekhen who had nothing to do with the ruling house at Abydos, or he may have been a rival from within that family. To him belongs the oldest tomb found in the cemetery of Abydos.

[edit] In contemporary fiction

Scorpion's name was borrowed for the 2002 movie The Scorpion King.
William Golding's novel The Scorpion God is loosely based upon this period of Egyptian History.