I was posting yesterday abround this time about Horus, Set and Osiris. An anon asked me roughly when Set would have been alive - based on the available data and I didn't know. So a digging I did go.

Brief history of Egyptology. The lists of Kings are based on work done by a number of ancient scolars, inc Manetho, who is the most widely quoted. The only ancient source we have is the Turin Papyrus, which is not in good condition. Most Egyptologists choose to ignore the lists of Kings before the first dynasty, mainly on the grounds that they project far back into antiquity - to a date when we were still wooly savages, kek. Here's a link I found that does decode the pre-dynastic kings of Egypt:

https://pharaoh.se/royal-canon-of-turin-kinglist

In this list we're interested in columns 1 (gods), 2 (demi-gods) and 3.1 - 3.9 (heroes). A lot of the years are missing, so I made some assumptions. The gods each ruled for 100s of years. The demi-gods have no values, so I assumed 120 years each. The heroes ruled for 30-50 years each.

Seth would have sat on the throne of Egypt in approx 56,000 BC.

When the dates were looked at in Victorian times, Hebrew scolars were busily trying to date the flood from the Bible, and all historical work around the middle east had to fit around them. Hence the years were assumed to be solar months, which winds all the years in nicely. Personally, I prefer the sauce to processed crap.

WtF was going on in 56k BC?!? That's much further back than I was anticipating.