Hotepsekhemwy was the first king of the Second dynasty of Egypt. His name means "the two powers are at peace". Little is known about his reign .
It is possible that Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy reached office by marriage to a princess. Thus we don't know if he was related to the old Thinite line of rulers or not. He is not thought to be the son of king Qa'a, but possibly his son in law. Regardless, he made offerings in memory of the man and was possibly responsible for Qa'a's funeral. Sealings with the name of "Hotepsekhemwy" have been found outside the tomb of Qa'a at Abydos.
His tomb has been identified in Saqqara; the substructure has survived but there are no remains of a superstructure. Manetho gives him 38 years of reign.
Although in much minor scale than with Khasekhemui, Hotepsekhemwy's name has also been regarded as part of a programmatical intent to declare the re-union of the Upper and Lower Egypt, or, more likely, aiming to definitively seal the succession after the turmoils of his father's reign conclusion.
Yet the major proof for the attribution of the galleries complex to Hotepsekhemwy still remains his apparently longer regnal period, which would seem to fit better with the construction of this large tomb, the first one in the new Memphite royal cemetery.
Hotepsekhemwy decided to build his funerary complex in the Memphite necropolis after it had been at Abydos for at least 200 years.
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