Egyptology - Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum: ancient palace companions of Saqqara

Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum were two male royal servants who lived during the twenty-fifth century BC under King Nyuserre Ini, the sixth pharaoh of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty. At court, both men shared the title of Overseer of the Manicurists. They were entombed together in a joint burial at Saqqara, where inscriptions describe them as royal confidants. Because of their unusual shared depictions in ancient Egyptian records, modern scholars and historians often interpret the two men as the earliest recorded same-sex couple.

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