'''Dinasti keenam [[Mesir Kuno]]]''' adalah dinasti yang dikelompokkan ke dalam periode [[Kerajaan Lama]].
== Daftar Firaun ==
[[Firaun]] Dinasti keenam yang dikenal adalah sebagai berikut (tahun-tahun merupakan perkiraan yang belum dapat dipastikan, dengan rentang kesalahan sekitar 10 tahun). Para firaun dinasti ini memerintah sekitar 164 years. Nama Horus dan nama para ratu dikutip dari ''Dodson and Hilton''.
'''DynastyDinasti VI''' isdianggap consideredoleh bybanyak manyilmuwan authoritiessebagai aswangsa theterakhir lastKerajaan dynasty of the Old KingdomLama, althoughmeskipun ''The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt'' <ref>Ian Shaw ed., ''The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt'', 2000</ref> includesmemasukkan [[SeventhDinasti Dynastyke-7 of EgyptMesir|DynastiesDinasti VII]] anddan [[EighthDinasti Dynastyke-7 of EgyptMesir|VIII]] assebagai partbagian of the OldKerajaan KingdomLama. [[Manetho]] writesmenulis thatbahwa thesepara kingsraja ruledini frommemerintah dari [[Memphis, EgyptMesir|Memphis]], sincekarena theirpiramid-piramid pyramidsmereka weredibangun builtdi at [[Saqqara]], verysangat closedekat onesatu tosama anotherlain.<ref>Sir Alan Gardiner, ''Egypt of the Pharaohs'', Oxford University Press 1964, p. 91</ref>
===Teti===
DynastyDinasti VI wasdidirikan founded byoleh [[Teti]], whoyang hadmenikah marrieddengan Iput, commonlyumumnya believeddiyakini tosebagai beputri theFiraun daughter[[Dinasti ofke-5 the DynastyMesir|Dinasti V pharaoh]], [[Unas]]. Manetho claimedmenyatakan thatbahwa Teti wasakhirnya eventuallydibunuh murdered by his ownoleh [[:en:bodyguard|pengawal]]nya sendiri, buttetapi tidak ada sumber-sumber nokontemporer contemporaryyang sourcesmemastikan confirmhal thisini.<ref>Naguib Kanawati, ''Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace: Unis to Pepy I'', Routledge 2003, p.157</ref>
During this dynasty, expeditions were sent to Wadi Maghara in the [[Sinai Peninsula]] to mine for [[turquoise]] and [[copper]], as well as to the mines at [[Hatnub]] and [[Wadi Hammamat]]. The pharaoh Djedkara sent trade expeditions south to [[Land of Punt|Punt]] and north to [[Byblos]], and [[Pepi I Meryre|Pepi I]] sent expeditions not only to these locations, but also as far as [[Ebla]] in modern-day [[Syria]].
