chronological table of egypt evolution

Here is Anne Rosalie David's chronological table of egypt evolution. Anne Rosalie David wrote several books on Egypt and is a professional Egyptologist and University Professor.

Predynastic Period

• 5100 - 3100 BC with unification of upper and lower egypt c. 3100 BC

Archaic Period

• Dynasty 1 begins with unification of Egypt
• Dynasty 2 begins in 2890 BC

Old Kingdom

• Dynasty 3 begins in 2686 BC
• Dynasty 4 begins in 2613 BC
• Dynasty 5 begins in 2494 BC
• Dynasty 6 begins in 2345 BC

First Intermediate Period

• Dynasty 7 begins in 2181 BC
• Dynasty 8 begins in 2173 BC
• Dynasty 9 begins in 2160 BC
• Dynasty 10 begins in 2130 and ends in 2040 BC
• Dynasty 11 begins in 2133 and ends in 1991

Middle Kingdom

• Dynasty 12 begins in 1991 BC and ends in 1786 BC

Second Intermediate Period

• Dynasty 13 begins in 1786 and ends in 1633 BC
• Dynasty 14 begins in 1786 and ends in c.1603 BC
• Dynasty 15 begins in 1674 and ends in 1567 BC
• Dynasty 16 begins in 1684 and ends in 1567 BC
• Dynasty 17 begins in c. 1650 and ends in 1567 BC

New Kingdom

• Dynasty 18 begins in 1567 BC
• Dynasty 19 begins in 1320 BC
• Dynasty 20 begins in 1200 BC

Third Intermediate Period

• Dynasty 21 begins c. 1089 BC
• Dynasty 22 begins in 945 and ends in 730 BC
• Dynasty 23 begins c. 818 and ends in 793 BC
• Dynasty 24 begins c. 727 and ends in 715 BC
• Dynasty 25 begins c. 730 and ends in 656 BC
• Dynasty 26 begins in 664 and ends in 525 BC

Late Period

• Dynasty 27 begins in 525 BC
• Dynasty 28 begins in 404 BC
• Dynasty 29 begins in 399 BC
• Dynasty 30 begins in 380 BC and ends in 343 BC.

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In 343 BC the Greeks led by Alexander the Great and his general's are conquering the world and Ptolemy is the general in charge in Egypt. Alexander dies and his lands are divided amongst the generals. The Ptolemaic Era begins with Ptolemy I Soter.

dynasty 5 pyramids

Snefru's bloodline passes and we enter into dynasty 5 pyramids.


The image depicts the pyramids at Giza with three smaller pyramids in the forefront dedicated to Menkaure associates.

The fifth dynasty remains a part of the Old Kingdom of Egypt.

Dynasty 4 ends when Menkaura, Shepseskaf, and Djedefptah, in a short spurt of time (untime), turn the Egyptian zeitgeist or spirit of time. We are now in the years 2532 BC to 2500 BC. Political powers are moving quickly within Egypt. The unified kingdom seems to be destabilizing. The central white walled house of Memphis and it's god king is being questioned for it's authority on what is divine law and what isn't divine law. (note to self....why is DiVinCi so close to divine- answer to self..look up grand master of grand masters of the stonemasons... ).

Again we turn to our collective encyclopedia called the Internet wikipedia-how f#%$#^ avant garde is that - for a king list of dynasty 5 pyramids and get the following pyramid structures for dynasty 5 which is focused between Saqqare and Abusir...Abusir seems to be a new addition to the Egyptian lore. It lies north of Saqqara, therefore closer to the Mediterranean which already shows some Mesopotamian or even Greek influence. And already we are only at 2500 BC circa.

The list..

meanwhile...

The king list of dynasty 5 Egypt...

1. Userkaf
2. Sahure
3. Neferirkare Kakai
4. Shepseskare Isi
5. Neferefre
6. Nyuserre Ini
7. Menkauhor Kaiu
8. Djedkare Isesi
9. Unas

Check out the pacific Hawaiin connection here....land of Lemuria etal....

There is debate that the rule of the fifth dynasty comes from behind the white walls of Memphis, but argument as it that fifth dynasty kings ruled form Elephantine (from Manetho's notes). Elephantine is interesting in that it is located on the border of upper egypt and lower egypt.

Old Kingdom Egypt

After the Archaic Period comes Old Kingdom Egypt.

The Thinite period covered 400 years from 3100 BC onwards and the rise and fall of over a dozen kings and the vizier order.

In the Old Kingdom the unity of Egypt grows initially but comes to a revolutionary end with the kings of the sixth and seventh dynasties.

Some egyptologists, people who study egyptian history, consider dynasty 3 to be part of the Archaic period or early dynasties. Others set the beginning of Old Kingdom Egypt at the beginning of the the third dynasty. The first king is called a Pharoah until the fourth dynasty.

The Egyptians under their new one king ruled by Horus who represented in a human god is the divine being of Ptah and rules from "the house of god", the Pr'aa, in the city of the white walls which is Memphis. The king is Pharoah by the fourth dynasty.

Old Kingdom Egypt is the time when the pyramids are believed to have been constructed. The alternate historians might not agree with the conventional egyptologist on this and they might tell you that while the power of the pyramid builder was reawakened in the Old Kingdom, the ideology or the knowledge behind the pyramidal structure holds it's roots in a much...much older world order.

Who's right ? Only time will tell.

The first pyramid definitely demonstrated advancements in the knowledge base and skillset of the Old Kingdom Egypt society. The mud brick huts and structures of the Archaic period has given way to neolithic/ bronze age fine stone cuts along with the smeltering of and crafting in of malleable ores and minerals.

The burial chambers and tombs of the Archaic age and the predynastic Egypt have also been upgraded. This is evident in the pyramids of the Old Kingdom.

Archaic Period

The Archaic Period of Egypt is when small settlements positioned along the Upper Nile and Lower Nile are unified under the rule of a centralized government with the Pharoah being the god man ruler.

The Archaic period is not well understood but it involves the rise of names like Narmer, Menes, Den, and others. By some accounts there are eight kings who rule the first dynasty and eight kings who ruled the second dynasty.

These kings lived in great palaces albeit structures made of mud bricks which have been lost to time. These two dynasties lasted from 3100 BC to 2700 BC approximately.

The Archaic Period is sometimes referred to as the Early dynastic period or the Thinite. It gets the name Thinite from Thinis which was situated near Abydos.



The city of Memphis also took form in the Archaic period. Memphis becomes the throne capital of Egypt. It is fortified by white walls and becomes known as the city of the white walls.

Ptah was the great creator and as the great commander of the pantheon of overlords it was he who manifested other deities.

In the great house inside the white walled city a god man elect would rule Egypt. It was the will of Ptah.

Pr'aa is symbolic of "the great house" and Pharoah is a derivative of Pr'aa and a title that would later be given to the king of all of Egypt.

In predynastic Egypt people used pictographs to communicate. The hieroglyphs were an improvement in communication most likely invented in these early dynasties. The hieroglyphic alphabet was the divine word or the language of the gods.

The entourage of the king priest included a priest class of elite minor rulers who were skilled scribes and highly trained in all types of arts and sciences. The priest class kept the masses convinced that the king was the elect god appointed figure head. They did this through the use hieroglyphic propaganda.

Of course, not all hieroglyphic scribbles were meant to be a means of controlling and while some scribes and artisans continued to serve the king, others would revolt.

These revolts led to seperation and to the decentralization of Egypt but not until the seventh dynasty.

Dynasties in Egypt

The dynasties in Egypt is where it all begins for the Pharoah.

The first dynasty in Egypt rises when King Menes unifies regions above Aswan, Upper Egypt, and the delta kingdoms that dot the lower Egyptian lands towards the Meditteranean sea. King Menes is a mythical figure by some accounts and probably an analog of King Narmer.

Narmer was a southern African ruler who began conquering the tribes to the North. The north of Egypt is considered lower Egypt because it lies on land situated down stream on the Nile.

Egypt Dynasty 1 starts in 3050 BC and goes to 2890 BC.

Then there are 30 more dynasties in Egypt followed by the GrecoRoman period that present the Macedonian Kings and the Ptolemaic Dynasties. Inside the Ptolemaic dynasties we find the story of Cleopatra and Ceasar.

Names of importance in these dynasties in Egypt.

See Dynasties in Egypt

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