What is Second Dynasty of Egypt?
[[File:SecondDynastyKingLists.png|thumb]] The '''Second Dynasty''' ruled [[ancient Egypt]] from c. 2890 to c. 2686&nbsp;BC<ref>{{cite book | editor-last =Shaw |editor-first=Ian |title=The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt | url =https://archive.org/details/oxfordhistoryanc00shaw |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-815034-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordhistoryanc00shaw/page/n504 480] }}</ref> It is the second dynasty of the [[Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)|Early Dynastic Period of Egypt]]. During this time the seat of government was centred at [[Thinis]]. Very little is known about this period in ancient Egyptian history. There is very little archaeological evidence of the time. But to compare the differences between the [[First Dynasty of Egypt|First]] and [[Third Dynasty of Egypt|Third]] Dynasties shows that there must have important institutional and economic developments during the Second Dynasty.<ref>{{cite book| last= Romer| first= John | author-link = John Romer (Egyptologist)|title=A History of Ancient Egypt| volume= 1| year= 2013 |orig-year=2012| publisher = Penguin Books | location= London, [[England|ENG]] | isbn= 978-1-8-4614377-9| pages= 221–22| chapter= Chapter 18 — The Lost Dynasty | quote= Whatever else was taking place at the court of the Second Dynasty of kings, it is clear that the fundamental institutions of pharaonic government, its systems of supply, not only survived throughout that century and a half, but flourished to the extent that, when the kings emerge into the light of history again with the pyramid builders of the Third Dynasty, the state on the lower Nile was more efficient than it had ever been: that there was, therefore, strong institutional continuity.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1= Bard|first1=Kathryn A.|editor1-first=Ian |editor1-last=Shaw |editor1-link=Ian Shaw (Egyptologist)|type=paperback|title=The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt|edition=1st|year=2002|orig-year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford|isbn= 978-0-19-280293-4|page