Ancient Egyptian Poetry
The priestess Meretites hugs her husband, the singer Kahai (Saqqara, Old Kingdom Egypt) First written poems in Egypt By the time the New Kingdom started, about 1500 BC, many Egyptian [...]
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Cinderella Story from Ancient Egypt
Straw flip-flops from ancient Egypt Where did this story come from? The West Asian writer Strabo wrote down this Egyptian version of the Cinderella story. He wrote it in Greek, [...]
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Third Intermediate Period: Ancient Egypt
Philistines on the Egyptian temple at Medinet Habu After the death of the last Ramses in 1085 BC, Egypt fell apart. Nobody knows exactly why, but there may have been [...]
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What was Egypt like in the Stone Age?
Hunting birds in ancient Egypt During most of the Stone Age, people in Egypt, like people everywhere else in the world, lived by hunting and gathering their food. They traveled [...]
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Second Intermediate Period – Ancient Egypt
Minoan painting on the wall of the Hyksos palace Around 1786 BC, some people we call the Hyksos invaded Egypt. The Hyksos invasion ended the Middle Kingdom and started the [...]
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When did the Persians rule Egypt?
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. [...]
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Old Kingdom Egypt – Ancient Egypt
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), [...]
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When was the New Kingdom? Ancient Egypt
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 [...]
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When was the Middle Kingdom? Ancient Egypt
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 [...]
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Egypt under Islamic rule
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, [...]
