The following outline is provided as an overview of a topical guide to ancient Egypt:
Ancient Egypt – ancient civilization of eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BCE (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh. The many achievements of the ancient Egyptians include the quarrying, surveying and construction techniques that facilitated the building of monumental pyramids, temples, and obelisks; a system of mathematics; a practical and effective system of medicine; irrigation systems and agricultural production techniques; the first known ships; Egyptian faience and glass technology; new forms of literature; and the earliest known peace treaty.
Ancient Egypt can be described as:
an ancient civilization
a Bronze Age civilization
part of ancient history
Abu Gorab
Abu Mena
Abu Rawash
Abu Simbel
Abydos
Alexandria
Al Fayyum/Atef-Pehu
Amarna/Akhetaten
Aswan
Asyut
Avaris
Beni Hasan
Bubastis
Buhen
Busiris (Lower Egypt)
Buto
Dahshur
Deir el-Bahri
Deir el-Madinah
Edfu
El-Lahun
Elephantine/Abu/Yebu
Gebel el-Silsila
Gerzeh
Giza
Gaza
Heliopolis/Annu/Iunu
Luxor
Memphis/Ineb Hedj
Rosetta
Saqqara
Tanis/Djanet
Thebes/Niwt/Waset
Thinis
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Pharaoh An article about the history of the title "Pharaoh" with descriptions of the regalia, crowns and titles used.
List of pharaohs This article contains a list of the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, from the Early Dynastic Period before 3000 BCE through to the end of the Ptolemaic Dynasty
Ancient Egyptian royal titulary
Vizier (Ancient Egypt) The vizier was the highest official in Ancient Egypt to serve the king, or pharaoh during the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms.
Viceroy of Kush The Lower Nubian Kush was a province of Egypt from the 16th century BCE to eleventh century BCE. During this period it was ruled by a viceroy who reported directly to the Egyptian Pharaoh.
Treasurer (Ancient Egypt) The treasurer was responsible for products coming to the royal palace. They were the main economical administrator of the royal belongings.
Egyptian law
Military of ancient Egypt
Ancient egyptian warfare
Chariotry in ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Navy
History of ancient Egypt
Prehistoric Egypt – The Prehistory of Egypt spans the period of earliest human settlement to the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt in ca. 3100 BCE.
Naqada I or Amratian culture - a cultural period in the history of predynastic Upper Egypt, which lasted approximately from 4000 to 3500 BCE.
Naqada II or Gerzeh culture - The Gerzean is the second of three phases of the Naqada Culture, and so is called Naqada II. It begins circa 3500 BCE lasting through circa 3200 BCE.
Naqada III or Semainean culture - Naqada III is the last phase of the Naqadan period of ancient Egyptian prehistory, dating approximately from 3200 to 3100 BCE.
Early Dynastic Period of Egypt – The Archaic or Early Dynastic Period of Egypt immediately follows the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt c. 3100 BCE. It is generally taken to include:
The First dynasty of Egypt
The Second dynasty of Egypt
Old Kingdom – The name given to the period in the 3rd millennium BCE when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement – the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley. This time period includes:
The Third dynasty of Egypt
The Fourth dynasty of Egypt
The Fifth dynasty of Egypt
The Sixth dynasty of Egypt
First Intermediate Period of Egypt – This period is often described as a “dark period” in ancient Egyptian history, spanning approximately 140 years after the end of the Old Kingdom from ca. 2181-2055 BCE It included:
The Seventh and eighth dynasties of Egypt
The Ninth dynasty of Egypt
The Tenth dynasty of Egypt
Part of the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt
Middle Kingdom of Egypt – The period in the history of ancient Egypt between 2055 BCE and 1650 BCE This period includes:
Later part of the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt
The Twelfth dynasty of Egypt
The Thirteenth dynasty of Egypt
The Fourteenth dynasty of Egypt
Some writers include the Thirteenth and Fourteenth dynasties in the Second Intermediate Period.
Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (Hyksos) – a period when Ancient Egypt fell into disarray for a second time, between the end of the Middle Kingdom and the start of the New Kingdom. It is best known as the period when the Hyksos made their appearance in Egypt and whose reign comprised
The Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt
The Sixteenth dynasty of Egypt.
New Kingdom of Egypt – Also referred to as the Egyptian Empire is the period in ancient Egyptian history between the 16th century BCE and the 11th century BCE, covering:
The Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
The Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt
The Twentieth dynasty of Egypt.
Third Intermediate Period – The time in Ancient Egypt from the death of Pharaoh Ramesses XI in 1070 BCE to the foundation of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty by Psamtik I in 664 BCE
This period includes:
The Twenty-first dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-third dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-fourth dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt
Late Period of ancient Egypt
The Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt, also known as the Saite Period, lasted from 672 BCEto 525 BCE.
The Twenty-seventh dynasty of Egypt The First Persian Period (525 BC - 404 BC), this period saw Egypt conquered by an expansive Persian Empire under Cambyses.
The Twenty-eighth dynasty of Egypt consisted of a single king, Amyrtaeus, prince of Sais, who rebelled against the Persians. This dynasty lasted 6 years, from 404 BC to 398 BC.
The Twenty-ninth dynasty of Egypt ruled from Mendes, for the period from 398 BC to 380 BC.
The Thirtieth Dynasty consisted of a series of three pharaohs ruling from 380 BC until their final defeat in 343 BC lead to the re-occupation by the Persians.
Graeco-Roman Period –
Arab Conquest –
History of Alexandria
Military history of Ancient Egypt
Battle of Kadesh
Egyptology – study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD. A practitioner of the discipline is an "Egyptologist".
Egyptologist – a practitioner of egyptology
Margaret Benson
Alan Gardiner
Zahi Hawass
Salima Ikram
William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Alan Gardiner
Auguste Mariette
E. A. Wallis Budge
Édouard Naville
Edward R. Ayrton
Bob Brier
Edwin Smith (Egyptologist)
Flinders Petrie
Cairo Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
Luxor Museum
Luxor Mummification Museum
Louvre
Egyptian Museum of Berlin
Museo Egizio, Turin
Palermo Archeological Museum
British Museum
Petrie Museum of Egyptology
Ashmolean Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brooklyn Museum
Art of ancient Egypt –
Amarna art –
Dance in ancient Egypt
Calendar –
Cats in ancient Egypt
Cuisine of ancient Egypt
Ghosts in ancient Egyptian culture
Homosexuality in ancient Egypt
Pectoral (Ancient Egypt)
Symbols of ancient Egypt
Ankh
Djed
Wadjet
Was scepter
Uraeus
Pschent
Hedjet
Deshret
Atef
Reserve head
Technology of ancient Egypt –
Chariotry in ancient Egypt
Obelisk building technology in ancient Egypt
Stone quarries of ancient Egypt
Urban planning in ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian technology
Ancient Egyptian medicine
Ancient Egyptian units of measurement
Egyptian mathematics
Ancient Egyptian multiplication
Ancient Egyptian architecture
Block statue (Egyptian)
False door
Step pyramid
Buildings and structures
Abu Simbel
Benben
Deir el-Bahri
Colossi of Memnon
Egyptian pyramids (List)Bent Pyramid
Black Pyramid
Giza pyramid complex
Great pyramid of Giza
Sphinx
Karnak Temple
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Library of Alexandria
Luxor temple
Mastaba
Ramesseum
Serdab
Ancient Egyptian religion
Death
Ancient Egyptian burial customs
Canopic jars
Mummy
Ancient Egyptian funerary texts
Book of Caverns
Book of Gates
Book of the Dead
Book of the Earth
Book of the Netherworld
Books of Breathing
Mortuary temple
Ancient Egyptian offering formula
Ancient Egyptian retainer sacrifices
Egyptian mythology
Ancient Egyptian creation myths
Egyptian pantheon
Ennead
Atum
Shu
Tefnut
Geb
Nut (Nuit)
Osiris
Isis
Set
Nephthys
Ogdoad of Hermopolis
Amun and Amunet
Huh and Hauhet
Kuk and Kauket
Nun and Naunet
Other major deities
Amun
Anubis
Apep
Apis
Aten
Bast
Hathor
Horus
Khepri
Chons
Ma'at
Min
Neith
Ptah
Ra
Sekhmet
Sobek
Thoth
Wepwawet
Deified concepts
Chons
Hapy
Ma'at
Min
Renenutet
Shai
Hu
Sia
War deities
Anhur
Bast
Maahes
Pakhet
Sekhmet
Other deities
Bes
Chnum
Seker
Seshat
Tawaret
Montu
Nepthys
Bastet
Ammit
Bes
Religious concepts
Ba
Ka
Akh
Duat
Atenism
Egyptian soul
Ennead
Ancient Egyptian language
Stages of ancient Egyptian language
Archaic Egyptian – before 2600 BC, the language of the Early Dynastic Period. Egyptian writing in the form of labels and signs has been dated to 3200 BC.
Old Egyptian – 2686 BC – 2181 BC, the language of the Old Kingdom
Middle Egyptian – 2055 BC – 1650 BC, characterized the Middle Kingdom (2055 BC – 1650 BC), but endured through the early 18th Dynasty until the Amarna Period(1353 BC), and continued on as a literary language into the 4th century AD.
Late Egyptian – 1069 BC – 700 BC, characterized the Third Intermediate Period (1069 BC – 700 BC), but started earlier with the Amarna Period (1353 BC).
Demotic – 7th century BC – 5th century AD, from the Late Period through Roman times
Coptic – 1st century AD – 17th century AD, from early Roman times to early modern times
Egyptian writing
Hieroglyphs
Hieratic
Demotic
Ancient Egyptian literature
Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian
Writing in Ancient Egypt
Foreign contacts of ancient Egypt
Palace economy
Egyptologists
Margaret Benson
Alan Gardiner
Zahi Hawass
Salima Ikram
William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Alan Gardiner
Auguste Mariette
E. A. Wallis Budge
Édouard Naville
Edward R. Ayrton
Bob Brier
Edwin Smith (Egyptologist)
Flinders Petrie
Ancient Egypt (magazine)
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide
Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt
The Hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture
