The Palermo Stone is an ancient Egyptian artifact dates back to the 5th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, around 2400 BC. It is one of the seven surviving fragments of a larger piece, known collectively as the Royal Annals of the Old Kingdom, which recorded the reigns of the early Egyptian pharaohs. The stone was discovered in 1866 in the city of Palermo, Sicily, Italy, by an Italian collector named Ferdinand Guidano, who later donated it to the Palermo Archaeological Museum where it remains today. It’s a polished, black basalt slab that measures approximately 43.5 centimeters high, 25 centimeters wide, and 6.5 centimeters thick. The stone is inscribed on both sides with horizontal registers containing hieroglyphic text. Each register is divided into a series of compartments, with each compartment recording the events of a single year of a king’s reign. The hieroglyphs detail the names of kings, religious ceremonies, tax records, and other significant occurrences. https://x.com/histories_arch/status/1834877188295815293