Ancient Egypt: from Narmer to Cleopatra

Ancient Egypt from its Predynastic cultures and its unification under Narmer to the death of Cleopatra VII and the Roman annexation in 30 BCE: its periods, dynasties and major reigns, its monuments, battles and treaties, and the writings we know it from. A sample timeline built from the sources cited on each moment. **How to read it.** Chapter headings mark the periods. Periods, dynasties and reigns are bands (navy, grey and ochre); everything else is a moment, linked to the Wikipedia article it draws on. Related things (a king and his monument, a battle and the treaty after it) are linked. **Dates.** Periods, dynasties and reigns follow one standard chronology, Ian Shaw (ed.), *The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt* (2000). Before 664 BCE every date is approximate, and other chronologies differ by years to decades; each moment's **Date precision** says how it is dated. A date known only to its year is placed on 1 January of that year. The few dates known to the day are Roman (Julian) dates, kept as given under **Historical dates**; the timeline's Gregorian display shows the same days a few dates earlier, as the two calendars differ by that much in antiquity.

92 moments · 4400-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE – 0030-08-29T00:00:00Z BCE · by @athan · @athan

Moments

1. Predynastic Egypt 4400-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
2. Painted tomb at Hierakonpolis 3500-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
3. Tomb U-j: the earliest writing 3250-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
4. Early Dynastic Period 3000-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
5. Narmer Palette 3000-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
6. Unification under Narmer 3000-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
7. Memphis founded 2990-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
8. Old Kingdom 2686-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
9. Step Pyramid of Djoser 2667-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
10. Sneferu's pyramids at Dahshur 2600-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
11. Diary of Merer 2567-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
12. Great Pyramid of Giza 2566-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
13. Great Sphinx of Giza 2550-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
14. Palermo Stone 2450-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
15. Pyramid Texts 2350-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
16. Harkhuf's letter from the boy king 2277-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
17. The 4.2-kiloyear drought 2200-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
18. First Intermediate Period 2160-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
19. Coffin Texts 2100-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
20. Middle Kingdom 2055-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
21. Thebes reunites Egypt 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
22. Itjtawy, the new capital 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
23. The Story of Sinuhe 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
24. Karnak: the temple of Amun 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
25. Semna boundary stela 1855-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
26. Second Intermediate Period 1650-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
27. The Hyksos rule from Avaris 1650-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
28. Edwin Smith Papyrus 1600-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
29. Seqenenra Taa killed 1560-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
30. Kamose attacks the Hyksos 1555-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
31. New Kingdom 1550-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
32. Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 1550-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
33. Ahmose takes Avaris 1530-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
34. Ebers Papyrus 1517-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
35. The Valley of the Kings 1500-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
36. Expedition to Punt 1471-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
37. Battle of Megiddo 1457-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
38. Hatshepsut's images erased 1435-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
39. Luxor Temple 1380-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
40. Colossi of Memnon 1360-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
41. Akhetaten (Amarna) founded 1348-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
42. Bust of Nefertiti 1345-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
43. Tutankhamun buried 1327-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
44. Abydos King List 1290-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
45. Battle of Kadesh 1274-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
46. Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty 1259-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
47. Merneptah Stele 1208-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
48. The Sea Peoples defeated 1177-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
49. The first recorded strike 1156-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE
50. The harem conspiracy 1153-01-01T00:00:00Z BCE