Footnote 1 – Narmer’s Enigmatic Palette
The Palermo Stone (c. 2400 B.C.) was originally a basalt stela 6.5 feet high and 3 feet wide, inscribed on both sides with royal annals stretching back to prehistoric times. Although most of the stone is now missing, the principal extant fragment is in the Palermo Archaeological Museum, in Sicily, while smaller fragments are in London’s Petrie Museum and Cairo’s Egyptian Museum.