Period Timeline by Darren Mason

Early Dynastic Period

darrenmason1 — 2024-01-10 18:42:58 UTC

3000-2650 BCE Leader: Narmer

Fact 1: Upper and Lower Egypt were all ruled by a king

Fact 2: The capital of Egypt was Memphis and the Royal Tombs are at Abydos and Saqqara.

Old Kingdom

darrenmason1 — 2024-01-10 18:43:35 UTC

2650-2150 BCE Leader: Djoser and Khufu

Fact 1: The king was powerful enough to mobilize a significant percentage of the population to move to Giza during the farming off-season and help to build a pyramid.

Fact 2: King Djoser had his vizier and architect, Imhotep, design a massive stepped monument: the Step Pyramid.

Middle Kingdom

darrenmason1 — 2024-01-10 18:44:10 UTC

2040-1640 BCE Leader: Khufu

Fact 1: The Middle Kingdom was a time of great literature.

Fact 2: Nubia, to the south, the Egyptians maintained or expanded extensive outposts dating back to the Old Kingdom.

New Kingdom

darrenmason1 — 2024-01-10 18:44:44 UTC

1550 - 1070 BCE Leader: Amenhotep III, Amenhotep IV, Hastshepsut, Rames II, Ramses III, Tutankhamun, and Thutmose III
Fact 1: The New Kingdom, often called the “Empire Age,” began with the Eighteenth Dynasty, famous for such fascinating rulers as Hatshepsut and Amenhotep III.

Fact 2: Akhnaton’s son, King Tutankhamun, lived to rule for only a few short years.

Saite and Late Period

darrenmason1 — 2024-01-10 18:45:57 UTC

712 BCE – 322 BCE Leader: Amyrytaeus of the 28th Dynasty, Necntaabo I, and Nectanabo II

Fact 1: The Assyrians invaded Egypt in 663 BCE

Fact 2: Like the Nubians before them, the Saite kings emulated the traditions, art, and large private tombs of earlier times.

Greco Roman Period

darrenmason1 — 2024-01-10 18:46:18 UTC

332 BCE - 642 CE Leader: Cleopatra VII

Fact 1: After Cleopatra’s death, the Romans seized Egypt as its province and used her people to farm food for its troops

Fact 2: Ptolemy gained control of Egypt, establishing a dynasty that lasted for nearly three hundred years, concluding with the tragic story of Cleopatra