Chronological Chart

• Predynastic Period: c. 4000-3000 BC

  • Badarian Culture
    
  • Amratian (Naqada I) Culture
    
  • Gerzean (Naqada II) Culture

• Early Dynastic Period: c. 3100-2686 BC

  • Dynasty I
    
  • Dynasty II

• Old Kingdom: c. 2686-2135 BC

  • Dynasties III-VIII

• First Intermediate Period: c. 2135-2040 BC

  • Dynasties IX-X

• Middle Kingdom: c. 2040-1786 BC

  • Dynasties XI-(early) XIII

• Second Intermediate Period: c. 1786-1558 BC

  • Dynasty XIV
    
  • Dynasties XV-XVI (Hyksos)
    
  • Dynasty XVII (Theban)

• New Kingdom: c. 1558-1085 BC

  • Dynasty XVIII (Thutmoside)
    
  • Dynasty XIX (First Ramesside)
    
  • Dynasty XX (Second Ramesside)

• Third Intermediate Period: c. 1085-715 BC

  • Dynasty XXI (Tanite);
    
  • Dynasties XXII-XXIII (Libyan);
    
  • Dynasty XXIV (Saite)

• Dynasty XXV: c. 715-656 BC (Kushite, Napatan)

• Dynasty XXVI (Saite): c. 664-525 BC

• Late Dynastic: c. 525-330 BC

  • Dynasty XXVII (First Persian Domination);
    
  • Dynasty XXVIII (Rebellion);
    
  • Dynasty XXIX (Mendesian);
    
  • Dynasty XXX (last of the native Egyptian Dynasties);
    
  • Dynasty XXXI (Second Persian Domination)

• Conquest of Alexander of Macedon: 332 BC

• Macedonian Rule: 332-305 BC

• Ptolemaic Dynasty: 304-30 BC

• Roman Conquest: 30 BC

• Ascendancy of Christianity: post AD 300

• Arab Conquest: AD 640