TIMELINE OF EGYPT
Date (BC)	Period	Ruler	Event or Architect	Building or Object
5000	Pre-		Nile valley settled by Farmers
4500	Dynastic
4000				Wattle and Daub Houses
3900				Ceremonial Weapons made of flint and ivory
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3200	Archaic	Menes		Graves Simulate Houseplans
3100	Dyn. 1&2	Narmer	Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt	Kings have two tombs one in Lower and one in Upper Egypt
3000				Wild Asses domesticated
2900				Houses 7 villages on Flood Plain made of Sun-dried Mudbrick with thatch flat roofs supported by palm beams; roofs used to sleep during heat
2800				Stairway Mastaba
2700	Old Kingdom Dyn. 3-6	Zoser 3rd Dyn. & Huni	Imhotep, physisican, priest and architect. Rise of skilled administration	Zoser Funerary Complex at Saqqara Firs large scale monument in Stone; Pyramid at Meydum (Huni)
2600		Seneferu 4th Dyn.	4th Dyn. Offering Chapel Dev.	Dahshur Pyramids South (Bent pyramid) 2723 BC & North Pyramid after Abandonment of South P.
2500		Cheops	Earliest surviving Mummy; Cheops' vizier and architect is Herniunu	Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu) at Giza near Cairo
2400		Chefren & Menkaura		Pyramids of Chephren (Khafra) Valley Buildings & Sphinx & Menkaura (smallest of three)
2300			5th & 6th Dyn. Elaboration of Ground Chapel	5th Dyn. Pyramid of Sahura in Abusir & Temple of Ra at Abu Ghurab around 2400 BC
2200	1st Inter-
2100	Mediate
2000	Dyn. 7-11	Mentuhotep		Mentuhotep's Temple at Deir el Bahari, near Thebes 2065 BC; Fortress at Shalfalk in Nubia
1900				Tombs of Beni Hasan of the 11th and 12th Dyn. Rock Hewn belonging to Provincial Great Family
1800	Middle Kingdom Dyn. 12		Development of Glass
1700	2nd Inter-mediate Dyn. 13-17		Introduction of Horse Drawn Chariot; Osiris has become established as dominant god for aafterlife belief
1600	Hyksos		1570 Hyksos driven out
1500	New KingdomDyn. 18-20	Thutmosis I & Queen Hatshepsut	Senmut. H's architect.    Imperial Expansion, Thebes becomes Capital	Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari near Thebes, 1520 BC
1400		Ahmenoteps I-III	Shaduf for raising water introduced 1500 BC; Pylon is introduced.	The Great Temple of Amun at Karnak near Thebes 1530-323 BC & Temple at Luxor, near Thebes 1408-1300 BC; Temple at Island of Elephantine, 1408 BC
1300		Akhenaten & Nefertiti 1353-1335 BC & Tutankhamun, 1333-1323	During New Kingdom wealthy Egyptians were buried with the Book of Going forth by Day; Brief ascendency of monotheism devoted to Sundisk Aten and capital of Tell-el-Amarna	Temple of Seti I at Abydos; Colossi of Memnon, 1391-1353 for Amenhotep III; Tell-el-Amarna for Akhenaten
1200		Rameses II 1304-1237		The Ramesseum at Thebes & Great & Small Temples at Abu Simbel 1301 BC & Rock Cut Temple at Gerf Hosein
1100	Priest Kings			Tombs of the Valley of the Kings 1550-1070 BC. Largest is that of Ramasses IX 1131-1112 BC; Temple at Medinet Habu for Rameses III; Temple of Khons at Karnak 1198 BC
1000
900	Lybians
800
700	Late Dynastic	Piankhy 751-716 BC	Nubian Kingdom of Kush rises at 750 BC	Temple of Jebel Barkal in Nubia to god Amun, built on top of older temple
600			Kushite kindom moves from Napata to Meroë	Nubiann Cementry at Nuri with Pyramid of King Taharqa
500		Persian Conquest 525	Worship of the Sacred Apis Bull at Memphis
400
300	Ptole-maic	Alexander the Great Conquers Egypt in 332 BC	A. insitutes his General Ptolemy as Pharaoh	Orders Restoration of the Temples of Luxor and Karnak; The Pharos of Alexandria (Lighthouse) constructed as well as Library
200				Temple of Horus at Edfu 237-57 BC
100				Temple of Hathor, Dendera 110 BC-68 AD
0		Cleopatra	C.'s Suicide 33 AD	Naga temples in Nubia
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