timescale.infoAncient 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
**Shabaqo** has a worm-eaten old text copied onto stone at Memphis: the **Memphite Theology**, in which the god **Ptah** creates the world by thought and speech.