Events
Earliest settlements along the NileEvidence of first farming communitiesEvidence of first hieroglyphicUnification of Upper and Lower EgyptThe Great Pyramid built over a 20-year period at GizaFall of the Old Kingdom due to environmental and political reasonsThe Book of the Dead begins to be used in funeral ceremoniesThe woman Hatshepsut becomes pharaohRameses II (also known as Rameses the Great) becomes pharaohBattle of Kadesh; pharaoh Rameses II claims great victory over the neighbouring Hittites, a rival empire to the north of EgyptEgypt made part of the empire of Alexander the GreatCleopatra, the last pharaoh of Egypt, commits suicide and Egypt becomes a province of the Roman EmpirePeriods
PredynasticOld KingdomMiddle KingdomNew KingdomLate Dynastic PeriodGreco- Roman Period
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