Egyptian Chronology (original) (raw)

date the cultural background the kings duration
before 8000 BC Palaeolithic
8000-5200 BC Epipalaeolithic (Tarifian ; Qarunian - Fayum B - 6000-5000 BC) 3000 years
6000-5000 BC Nabta Playa 1000 years
5200-4000 BC Fayum Neolithic (Fayum A) 1200 years
4800-4200 BC Merimde 600 years
4600-4400 BC El Omari 200 years
4400-4000 BC Badarian 400 years
4000-3300 BC Maadi 700 years
4000-3500 BC Naqada I 500 years
3500-3200 BC Egypt in the Naqada Period Naqada II 300 years
3200-3100 BC Naqada III 100 years
3100-2686 BC Egypt in the Early Dynastic Early Dynastic 400 years
2686-2181 BC Egypt in the Old Kingdom Old Kingdom 500 years
2181-2025 BC Egypt in the First Intermediate Period First Intermediate Period 150 years
2025-1700 BC Egypt in the Middle Kingdom Middle Kingdom 325 years
1700-1550 BC Egypt in the Second Intermediate Period Second Intermediate Period 150 years
1550-1069 BC Egypt in the New Kingdom New Kingdom 500 years
1069-664 BC Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period Third Intermediate Period 400 years
664-525 BC Egypt in the Late Period Late Period 139 years
525-404 BC Egypt in the first Persian Period First Persian Period 121 years
404-343 BC Late Dynastic Period in Egypt Late Dynastic Period 61 years
343-332 BC Egypt in the second Persian Period Second Persian Period 11 years
332-305 BC Macedonian Period 27 years
323-30 BC Ptolemaic Period Ptolemaic Period 293 years
30 BC - 640 AD Egypt in the Roman Period Roman/Byzantine Period 670 years
640-1517 Egypt in the Islamic Period Islamic Period 877 years
1517-1805 Ottoman Period 288 years
1805-1919 Khedival Period 114 years
1919-1953 Monarchy 34 years
1953-today Republic 50+ years

Dates are only certain after 664 BC. The earliest dates are often very unsecure.


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