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 BCÂ 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. [...]
Egyptian Headrest (Vatican Museum): Egyptian furniture Did Egyptian houses have furniture? Most Egyptian houses didn't have much furniture in them. The floor was plain dirt or clay. People slept on [...]
A scene from the Ramayana This is a play, with parts for many children. The Ramayana is an old Indian story, and in India it has been acted as a [...]
Chinese terracotta army head made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon In the Qin Dynasty, about 210 BC, one of the emperors had a whole army of men made [...]
A Chinese shoe for a woman with bound feet - Chinese foot-binding Chinese foot-binding When we think about Chinese clothing, it strikes us as really weird that women bound little [...]
