Menes, Aha, or Narma 3,032 B.C. Menes was a Thinite (A native of Thinis or Abydos), which was located in Upper Egypt between the first cataract and the Delta.

Menes and his successors ruled from this city. During his reign he put into effect a body of laws introduced luxurious and extravagant manners of living.

He also built a new capital at Ined Hedj, meaning the "White Wall." He united agricultural towns and villages, along the Nile into a single realm.