Ancient Egypt

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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
  • Archaic Period of Egypt (until ca. 27th century)
  • Old Kingdom (3rd to 6th dynasites, 27th to 22th centuries)
  • First Intermediate Period (7th to 11th dynasties)
  • Middle Kingdom of Egypt (11th to 14th dynasties, 20th to 17th centuries)
  • Second Intermediate Period (14th to 17th dynasties)
    • Hyksos (16h to 17th dynasties)
  • New Kingdom of Egypt (18th to 20th dynasties, 16th to 11th centuries )
  • Third Intermediate Period
  • Late Period of Ancient Egypt (7th to 1st centuries)
    • Achaemenid dynasty
    • Ptolemaic dynasty

• Egyptian chronology
• Conventional Egyptian chronology

Language

• Egyptian language
• Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Hieratic

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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