Timeline of Ancient Egypt
Category: Other
Updated: 24 Jun 2021
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Created byHarper Ruka-Carter
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Predynastic period
Earliest settlements along the NilePredynastic period
Evidence of first farming communitiesPredynastic period
Evidence of first hieroglyphicsPredynastic period
Unification of Upper and Lower EgyptOld Kingdom
The Great Pyramid built over a 20-year period at GizaOld Kingdom
Fall of the Old Kingdom due to environmental and political reasons.Middle Kingdom
The Book of the Dead begins to be used in funeral ceremoniesNew Kingdom
The woman Hatshepsut becomes pharaohNew Kingdom
Rameses II (also known as Rameses the Great) becomes pharaohNew Kingdom
Battle of Kadesh; pharaoh Rameses II claims great victory over the neighbouring Hittites, a rival empire to the north of EgyptLate Dynastic Period
Egypt made part of the empire of Alexander the GreatGreco-Roman Period
The Rosetta Stone createdGreco-Roman Period
Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Egypt, commits suicide and Egypt becomes a province of the Roman Empire
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