Ancient Egypt

Map of Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt was the civilization of the Nile Valley between about 3000 BC and the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. As a civilization based on irrigation it is the quintessential example of an hydraulic empire.

History

• History of Ancient Egypt
• List of Pharaohs
• * Early Dynastic Period of Egypt (1st to 2nd dynasties; until ca. 27th century BC)
• * Old Kingdom (3rd to 6th dynasites; 27th to 22nd centuries BC)
• * First Intermediate Period (7th to 11th dynasties)
• * Middle Kingdom of Egypt (11th to 14th dynasties; 20th to 17th centuries BC)
• * Second Intermediate Period (14th to 17th dynasties)
• ** Hyksos (15th to 16th dynasties)
• * New Kingdom of Egypt (18th to 20th dynasties; 16th to 11th centuries BC)
• * Third Intermediate Period (21st to 25th dynasties; 11th to 7th centuries BC)
• * Late Period of Ancient Egypt (26th to 31 dynasties; 7th century BC to 332 BC)
• ** Achaemenid dynasty
• * Graeco-Roman Egypt (332 BC to AD 639)
• ** Ptolemaic dynasty
• ** Roman Empire

• Egyptian chronology
• Conventional Egyptian chronology

Language

• Egyptian language
• Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Hieratic
• Demotic

Geography

• Upper and Lower Egypt
• Nome (Egypt)
• Nile
• Geography of Egypt

Culture

• Egyptian mythology
• Great Pyramid of Giza
• Arts of the ancient world

See also

• Egyptology
• Egyptian Museum
• List of ancient Egyptians

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