Talk:Nitocris/@comment-126.74.233.141-20160726084709/@comment-28349180-20160726135803

She succeeded her brother. He had been the king of Egypt, and he had been put to death by his subjects, who then placed her upon the throne. Determined to avenge his death, she devised a cunning scheme by which she destroyed a vast number of Egyptians. She constructed a spacious underground chamber and, on pretense of inaugurating it, threw a banquet, inviting all those whom she knew to have been responsible for the murder of her brother. Suddenly as they were feasting, she let the river in upon them by means of a large, secret duct.

Then, to avoid the other conspirators, she committed suicide

lsaid to be the 6th pharaohast pharoah of the Sixth Dynasty