Ancient Egypt - Definition and Overview

Ancient Egypt was the civilization of the Nile Valley between about 3000 BC and the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. As a civilization based on irrigation it is the quintessential example of an hydraulic empire.

History

• History of Ancient Egypt
• List of Pharaohs
  • Early Dynastic Period of Egypt (1st to 2nd dynasties; until ca. 27th century BC)
  • Old Kingdom (3rd to 6th dynasites; 27th to 22nd centuries BC)
  • First Intermediate Period (7th to 11th dynasties)
  • Middle Kingdom of Egypt (11th to 14th dynasties; 20th to 17th centuries BC)
  • Second Intermediate Period (14th to 17th dynasties)
    • Hyksos (15th to 16th dynasties)
  • New Kingdom of Egypt (18th to 20th dynasties; 16th to 11th centuries BC)
  • Third Intermediate Period (21st to 25th dynasties; 11th to 7th centuries BC)
  • Late Period of Ancient Egypt (26th to 31 dynasties; 7th century BC to 332 BC)
    • Achaemenid dynasty
  • Graeco-Roman Egypt (332 BC to AD 639)
    • Ptolemaic dynasty
    • Roman Empire

• Egyptian chronology
• Conventional Egyptian chronology

Language

• Egyptian language
• Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Hieratic
• Demotic

Geography

• Upper and Lower Egypt
• Nome (Egypt)
• Nile
• Geography of Egypt

Culture

• Egyptian mythology
• Great Pyramid of Giza
• Arts of the ancient world

See also

• Egyptology
• Egyptian Museum
• List of ancient Egyptians