History Timeline


Egyptian history (yellow bar at top in picture) is devided into 9 major including 3 periods
of decline (in gray). This site deals with the first five. The colors blue and red
show when, how long and by whom Egypt had foreign rulers.
For the oldest times the figures are estimated.

0) Neolitic period6000-3500 BC
1) Predynastic period3500-3100 BC
2) Early Dynastic period3100-2575 BC
3) Old Kingdom 2575-2040 BC
4) Middle Kingdom2040-1550 BC
5) New Kingdom 1550-712   BC
6) Late period712-332     BC
7) Greek period332-30       BC
8) Roman period30 BC-395 AD

All rulers from the New Kingdom and later
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