Although most accounts of the Egyptian civilization concentrate on famous and well-known works of art, all these monuments and paintings had to start …
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Every Period of Ancient Egyptian History Explained
From the predynastic period to Cleopatra's death, these are the ages of ancient Egypt.
The third dynasty marked the beginning of Old Kingdom Egypt which lasted until roughly the sixth dynasty, from ca. 2686-2181 BC. It was an incredibly …
The First Intermediate Period (ca. 2181-2040 BC), commonly misconstrued as a purely dark and chaotic time in Egyptian history, immediately followed …
Middle Kingdom Egypt is the period in history directly following the First Intermediate Period, a period largely characterized by political disunity. …
Records like those of Manetho, a renowned 3rd century BC Greco-Egyptian priest and historian, state that the Hyksos, a Semitic/Western Asiatic …
New Kingdom Egypt immediately followed the chaotic period known as the Second Intermediate Period. The New Kingdom comprises dynasties 18 through 20 …
The Third Intermediate Period of ancient Egypt was a complicated era of political uncertainty, marked by a divisive state and the conquest and rule …
The Late Period is the name given to the last era of native ancient Egyptian rulers, from 664 BCE to the campaigns of Alexander the Great in 332 BCE.
Alexander the Great conquered Persian-controlled Egypt in 332 during his campaigns against the Achaemenid Empire. Upon his death in 323 BCE, …
