Coin of the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra Ptolemies against Romans The Ptolemies, the Greek kings of Egypt, ruled Egypt for 300 years. But by around 50 BC, the Ptolemies were much weaker than [...]
Cambyses II capturing the Egyptian pharaoh Psamtik, from a seal (500s BC) The Persian king Cambyses II conquered Egypt in 525 BC. Libyans attacked from the east, but the Persians fought them off. [...]
Old Kingdom Egypt: Narmer Palette (about 3100 BC) Egypt becomes one country When Egypt first became one unified country around 3000 BC under a Pharaoh from Upper Egypt (the south), [...]
New Kingdom Egypt: The pharaoh Hatshepsut Ahmose starts the 18th Dynasty With the reunification of Egypt by the southerner Ahmose (Kamose died before it was united) and the expulsion of [...]
Mentuhotep II, Pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom What was the Middle Kingdom? Historians (since about 1845) have divided the history of Bronze Age Egypt into three big chunks, with political [...]
Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt (900s AD) With the rise of the new religion of Islam, the Arabs started a new empire centered on Syria. Soon the Arabs conquered Egypt, [...]
Ancient Egypt history: a map showing Lower Egypt (in the north) and Upper Egypt (in the south) African people have probably been living in Egypt at least since 100,000 BC, [...]
Ptolemy I Soter, on a coin (He's trying to look like Alexander) Alexander conquers Egypt In 332 BC Alexander the Great and his Greek army conquered Egypt from the Persians who [...]
First Intermediate Period: a time of climate crisis? A Nilometer on Elephantine Island (Nile Valley Tours) - This ancient Egyptian device measured how high the Nile floods were each year. [...]
Amenemhet III, Egyptian pharaoh (Egyptian king) Pharaoh: an Egyptian king or queen The Egyptian Pharaoh (FARE-oh) owned all of Egypt, and everything in it: all the land, all the tools, [...]
