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Ancient Egypt

50,000BC 10,000BC 3,000BC 500AD
 
                            
1st Dynasty of Egypt
2nd Dynasty of Egypt
3rd Dynasty & 4th Dynasty of Egypt
5th Dynasty & 6th Dynasty of Egypt
7th Dynasty & 8th Dynasty of Egypt
First Intermediate Period
11th Dynasty of Egypt
12th Dynasty of Egypt
13th Dynasty of Egypt
14th Dynasty of Egypt
15th Dynasty of Egypt
Second Intermediate Period
18th Dynasty of Egypt
19th Dynasty of Egypt
20th Dynasty of Egypt
Theban High Priests of Amun
21st Dynasty of Egypt
22nd Dynasty of Egypt
23rd Dynasty of Egypt
Kingdom of Kush
25th Dynasty of Egypt
24th Dynasty of Egypt
26th Dynasty of Egypt
Achaemenid Empire
Alexandrian Empire
Ptolemaic Dynasty
Roman Empire
Eastern (Byzantine) Roman Empire
 
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 1st Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 3100 BC
End: 2890 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Early Dynastic Period
Language: Archaic Egyptian
Script: Heiroglyphic
Notes: Human sacrifice part of funerary ritual

 2nd Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 2890 BC
End: 2686 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Early Dynastic Period
Language: Archaic Egyptian
Script: Heiroglyphic

 3rd Dynasty & 4th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 2686 BC
End: 2494 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Old Kingdom
Language: Old Egyptian
Script: Heiroglyphic
Notes: Great Pyramids first built

 5th Dynasty & 6th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 2494 BC
End: 2184 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Old Kingdom
Language: Old Egyptian
Script: Heiroglyphic

 7th Dynasty & 8th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 2181 BC
End: 2160 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: First Intermediate Period
Language: Middle Egyptian
Script: Heiroglyphic

 First Intermediate Period

Start: 2160 BC
End: 2025 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th Dynasties

 11th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 2134 BC
End: 1991 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Middle Kingdom
Language: Middle Egyptian
Script: Heiroglyphic
Notes: Turin King List

 12th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 1991 BC
End: 1802 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Middle Kingdom
Capital: Thebes
Language: Middle Egyptian
Script: Heiroglyphic
Religion: ancient Egyptian religion
Notes: The chronology of the 12th dynasty is the most stable of any period before the New Kingdom. The Ramses Papyrus canon (1290 BC) in Turin gives 213 years (1991-1778 BC). Manetho stated that it was based in Thebes, but from contemporary records it is clear that the first king moved its capital to a new city named Amenemhat-itj-tawy (Amenemhat the Seizer of the Two Lands), more simply called Itjtawy. The location of Itjtaway has not been found, but is thought to be near the Fayyum, probably near the royal graveyards at el-Lisht. Egyptologists consider this dynasty to be the apex of the Middle Kingdom..(wiki)

 13th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 1802 BC
End: 1649 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Middle Kingdom
Language: Middle Egyptian
Script: Heiroglyphic

 14th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 1710 BC
End: 1610 BC
Type: Dynasty
Language: Middle Egyptian
Script: Heiroglyphic

 15th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 1650 BC
End: 1550 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Hyksos
Language: Semitic

 Second Intermediate Period

Start: 1650 BC
End: 1550 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: 16th & 17th Dynastys

 18th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 1550 BC
End: 1292 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Thutmosid (New Kingdom)
Language: Middle /Late Egyptian
Script: Cursive Heiroglyph
Religion: Funerary
Notes: Akhenaten/Nefertiti:Sun worship (Aten/Ra). Book of The Dead

 19th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 1292 BC
End: 1190 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Ramesside (New Kingdom)

 20th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 1190 BC
End: 1077 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Ramesside (New Kingdom)
Language: Late Egyptian

 Theban High Priests of Amun

Start: 1080 BC
End: 943 BC
Type: Dynasty

 21st Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 1077 BC
End: 943 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Third Intermediate Period
Language: Late Egyptian

 22nd Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 943 BC
End: 740 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Third Intermediate Period
Language: Late Egyptian

 23rd Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 880 BC
End: 724 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Third Intermediate Period
Language: Late Egyptian

 Kingdom of Kush

Start: 785 BC
End: 350 AD
Type: Culture

 25th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 760 BC
End: 656 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Third Intermediate Period
Language: Late Egyptian
Script: Demotic Egyptian
Notes: Aethiopians/Nubians/Kushites

 24th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 732 BC
End: 720 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Third Intermediate Period
Language: Late Egyptian

 26th Dynasty of Egypt

Start: 685 BC
End: 525 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Late Period

 Achaemenid Empire

Start: 559 BC
End: 330 BC
Type: Dynasty
Capital: Babylon
Language: Persian, Aramaic, Akkadian, Median, Elamite
Religion: Zoroastrianism, Babylonian

 Alexandrian Empire

Start: 359 BC
End: 323 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Argead Dynasty
Religion: Olympian

 Ptolemaic Dynasty

Start: 305 BC
End: 30 BC
Type: Dynasty
Note: Diadochi

 Roman Empire

Start: 27 BC
End: 395 AD
Type: Empire
Language: Latin
Script: Latin
Religion: Olympian, Christianity

 Eastern (Byzantine) Roman Empire

Start: 306 AD
End: 518 AD
Type: Empire
Note: Byzantine
Religion: Christianity
 
Female figure ⌕
   
NoteLocation G64/6
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Lead
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cloned
Reference:  EA32138
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Huni ⌕
   
NotePink granite head attributed to Huni
Year2613 BC
Category: Sculpture
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Collection:  Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
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Menkaure ⌕
   
NotePyramid of Menkaure, at Giza (Memphis)
Year2503 BC
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Great Pyramid of Giza ⌕
   
NotePyramid of Khufu at Giza. One of the 'Seven Wonders of The World'
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Menkaure ⌕
   
NoteGreywacke statue of Menkaure, Egyptian Museum, Cairo.(wikipedia)
Year2503 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
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Collection:  Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
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Sahure ⌕
   
Note
Year2475 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
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Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Pepi I ⌕
   
NoteEgyptian Museum, Cairo
Year2283 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
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Collection:  Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
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Mentuhotep II ⌕
   
Note
Year1995 BC
Category: Painting
Location:  Karnak (Thebes)
Material: 
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  [🡭]
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Mentuhotep II ⌕
   
NotePainted sandstone seated statue of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II, Egyptian Museum, Cairo.(wikipedia)
Year2134 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
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Collection:  Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
Licence:  [🡭]
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Mentuhotep III ⌕
   
NoteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
Year1998 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
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Collection:  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Licence:  [🡭]
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Coffin texts ⌕
   
NoteMap of the netherworld from the coffin of Gua, from Deir el-Bersha, Egypt.
Year1985 BC
Category: Painting
Location: 
Material: 
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note: 
Reference: 
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Amenemhat II ⌕
   
Note
Year1895 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material: 
Collection:  The Louvre
Licence:  [🡭]
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Senusret I ⌕
   
Note
Year1971 BC
Category: Sculpture
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Senusret III ⌕
   
NoteLuxor Museum
Year1839 BC
Category: Sculpture
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Sobekhotep V ⌕
   
Note
Year1719 BC
Category: Sculpture
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Tutenkhamun bust ⌕
   
NoteBust of Tut found in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor (Thebes / Karnak). Held in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Year1323 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Karnak (Thebes)
Material: 
Collection:  Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
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Tutenkhamun ⌕
   
NoteThe Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Year1323 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Gold
Collection:  Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution: 
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Crystal Hippopotamus figure of Taweret ⌕
   
NoteRock crystal amuletic figure of Taweret: supporting a sa-symbol. The missing headdress would have been horns with disc, and a low cylindrical pillbox hat or feathers.(Wiki)
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Rock Crystal
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cropped
Reference:  BM EA24395
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Queen Nefertiti ⌕
   
NoteThe bust of from the Ägyptisches Museum Berlin collection, presently in the Neues Museum. Armana Style (naturalistic) bust of the Queen of Akhenaten and mother of Tutenkhamun.
Year1353 BC
Category: Sculpture
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AkhenAten (Amenhotep IV) ⌕
   
Note
Year1336 BC
Category: Sculpture
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Horemheb ⌕
   
NoteDetail of a statue of , at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Year1292 BC
Category: Sculpture
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Lion Headed (Sekhmet) statue ⌕
   
NoteStatue of Sekhmet from the temple of Mut. granite, Luxor. National Museum, Copenhagen
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Karnak (Thebes)
Material: 
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Licence:  [🡭]
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Ramesses II The Great ⌕
   
Note
Year1212 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Abu Simbel
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Deity ⌕
   
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Temple of Seti I ⌕
   
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Category: Architecture
Location:  Abdju
Material: 
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Licence:  [🡭]
Attribution:  Gérard Ducher
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Ramesses I ⌕
   
NoteStone head carving of Paramessu (Ramesses I), originally part of a statue depicting him as a scribe. On display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.(wikipedia)
Year1290 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material: 
Collection:  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Licence:  [🡭]
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Painted and gilded sun-disc headdress ⌕
   
NotePainted and gilded sycomore fig wood sun-disc headdress of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Wood, gold, paint
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cropped
Reference:  BM EA9851
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Hippopotamus and Female Human hybrid statuette ⌕
   
NoteBlue glazed composition amuletic figure of Taweret; suspension ring at the back.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material: 
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cropped
Reference:  BM EA64592
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Lion Human Figurine ⌕
   
NoteFrom Late Period, Naukratis, Egypt
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material: 
Collection:  The British Museum
Licence:  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  British Museum
Image Note:  background cloned
Reference:  BM EA64592
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Gold lion-griffin plaque ⌕
   
Note
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location: 
Material:  Gold
Collection:  New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Licence:  CC0 1.0 [🡭]
Attribution:  New York Met
Image Note: 
Reference:  54.3.2
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Gold ram rhyton ⌕
   
NoteNational Museum of Iran
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:  Ecbatana
Material:  Gold
Collection: 
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Golden drinking vessel ⌕
   
NoteThe Hyrcanian Golden cup. Dated first half of first millennium. Excavated at Kalardasht in Mazandaran.
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Category: Ornament
Location: 
Material:  Gold
Collection: 
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Temple of Trajan ⌕
   
Noteat Pergamon,Asia Minor. Built by Hadrian
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