according to the abido's king list and another that has come to be known as the turin canon five kings belonged to dynasty three though their order of succession is not agreed upon the generally recognized first king of the dynasty is well relatively famous he's known by several names such as negeriket or as to sort rose in monito's list but most today know him by the name jose also pronounced zozer however the abidos kinglist and the turin cannon have recorded one of joser's brothers sanakte better known as nebca as the dynasty's first sovereign the reason that we today place jose as the first king of dynasty NUMBER_TOKEN is because archaeological evidence seems to support the hypothesis that he directly succeeded kasakemui his father and the last king of dynasty NUMBER_TOKEN. this is because it's quite clear that it was jose who presided over casa kemi's burial meaning that he must have been the next king in line and not nebca along with almost identical grave goods found in both of their tombs the sakhara king list also records him as kasakemui's immediate successor which further strengthens the claim that it was indeed jose and not nebca who started a new dynasty for thousands of years jose was remembered as a great king one of the very few whose memory seems to have lived on throughout egypt's ancient history in fact it said that when the new kingdom scribe who wrote the turin canon came to the name of jose instead of writing it in black as was customary he chose the color red to indicate the special place that the king held in the hearts of the egyptian people there were probably several reasons for this many of which unfortunately we'll likely never know one important reason could have simply been stability remember jose's second dynasty predecessors oversaw a period where much of egypt was divided there were revolts in the cities of the northern delta region and also what seemed to have been sectarian conflicts between the followers of the god seth and those of the god horus such factors likely contributed to dynasty NUMBER_TOKEN's rulers having at best a tenuous grip over egypt contrast this to what we know of jose's NUMBER_TOKEN-year reign which in comparison to those of earlier kings was replete with large-scale building projects as well as trade and state-sponsored mining expeditions to the southwestern cyanide region this area contained large quantities of valuable metals and turquoise such capital-intensive endeavors for any ruler of the time would have been extremely difficult if not nearly impossible without a great deal of internal political stability especially in the northern delta region which would have been on the land route to the cyanide peninsula jose's decision to be buried at the necropolis at saqqara just outside the capital of memphis was a break with the centuries-old kingly tradition of being laid to rest within the royal cemetery of abedos this is significant for a couple of reasons one is that at least according to monito the third dynasty's
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