because it symbolized power over upper and lower eygpt!!!!!!!=)
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Menes
they wore the double crown to symbolize their rule over Upper and Lower Egypt.
Pharaohs wore the royal Deshret (Red Crown), Hedjet (White Crown), Peshent (Red and White Crown), Khepresh (Blue Crown) and Nemes (Head-Cloth Crown). The queens wore Cap-Crown or other fancy headdresses).
they wore the double crown to symbolize their rule over Upper and Lower Egypt.
King Narmer
they wore the double crown to symbolize their rule over Upper and Lower Egypt.
The pharaohs of the first dynasty wore a double crown to symbolize their rule over upper and lower egypt
King Menes (a.k.a.) Narmer of Egypt united the thus stating the first dynasty of pharaohs in Egypt in about 3150 B.C.E. He was the first one to wear the double crown which was made by the red crown the symbol of lower Egypt and the white crown the symbol of upper Egypt . The double crown is also a symbol for the upper and lower Egypt .
The colors of the double crown were white and red.
The symbol of Upper Egypt is a tall, white crown.The symbol of Lower Egypt is the red crown. So, if you were leader of both, you would wear the double crown(one inside the other). However, the pharaoh would also have a variety of other headdresses to wear eg. the nemes headdress, or the blue war crown, etc.
Double Crown Resources.....symbol is DDCC.
It was a combination of the crowns of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, symbolising the unification of Egypt.