History of Ancient Egypt - Article Index

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Egypt - Old Kingdom
Egyptologists consider the Old Kingdom as beginning with the Third Dynasty, and around the time of the Fourth Dynasty, the art of embalmi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manetho: Encyclopedia - Manetho
Manetho, also known as Manethon of Sebennytos, was an Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos who lived during the Ptolematic era, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twenty-eighth Dynasty Of Egypt: Encyclopedia - Twenty-eighth Dynasty Of Egypt
Known rulers, in the History of Egypt, for the Twenty-Eighth Dynasty. The Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth, Thir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twenty-sixth Dynasty Of Egypt: Encyclopedia - Twenty-sixth Dynasty Of Egypt
Known rulers, in the History of Egypt, for the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty. Africanus' often accurate version of Manetho's Epitome states that i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amenhotep Ii: Encyclopedia - Amenhotep Ii
Aakheperure Amenhotep II (d. 1401/1400 BC) was the seventh Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1427 BC to 1401 BC and is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eighteenth Dynasty Of Egypt: Encyclopedia - Eighteenth Dynasty Of Egypt
Known rulers, in the History of Egypt, for the Eighteenth Dynasty. The Eighteenth, Nineteen and Twentieth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twenty-ninth Dynasty Of Egypt: Encyclopedia - Twenty-ninth Dynasty Of Egypt
Known rulers, in the History of Egypt, for the Twenty-Ninth Dynasty. The Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth, Thirt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Smenkhkare: Encyclopedia Ii - Smenkhkare - Identity
The identity of the Pharaoh whose praenomen is Ankhkheprure, who is usually known as Smenkhkare, is somewhat mysterious. Egyptologists do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twenty-sixth Dynasty Of Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - Twenty-sixth Dynasty Of Egypt - Twenty-sixth Dynasty Timeline
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Encyclopedia - Thutmose Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Thutmose Ii - Family
Thutmose II was the son of Thutmose I and a minor wife, Mutnofret. He was, therefore, a lessor son of Thutmose I who chose to marry his f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Afrocentrism - The Debate Over Afrocentrism
Critics of Afrocentrism counter that much historical Afrocentric research simply lacks scientific merit and that it actually seeks to sup...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amenhotep Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Amenhotep Ii - Reign
Amenhotep II was the son of Thutmose III and a minor wife, Hatshepsut-Meryetre. Amenhotep was certainly the junior co-regent to his fathe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manetho: Encyclopedia Ii - Manetho - Aegyptiaca
Aegyptiaca (also called Aigyptiaka), the "History of Egypt," was Manetho's largest work, and certainly the most important. It was organis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hatshepsut: Encyclopedia Ii - Hatshepsut - Her Rule
Upon Thutmose II's death, the throne passed to Thutmose III, and Hatshepsut—as the boy king's aunt and stepmother—was selected to be ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Afrocentrism - A Different World-view
I am apt to suspect the Negroes...to be naturally inferior to the White. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Imhotep: Encyclopedia - Imhotep
Imhotep (sometimes spelt Immutef, Ȧmhotep, or Ii-em-Hotep, Egyptian ii-m-ḥtp) was a vizier, wizard, and the first architect and physic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hatshepsut: Encyclopedia Ii - Hatshepsut - Changing Image
Hatshepsut - In Egyptology. After her death, many of her monuments were defaced or destroyed. Replacing the names on older monuments w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manetho: Encyclopedia Ii - Manetho - Life And Work
Although no sources for the dates of his life and death remain, his work is usually associated with the reigns of Ptolemy I Soter (323-28...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism: Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism
Afrocentrism is a worldview or ideology that focuses on the black people and their contributions. More particularly, it often seeks to e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Afrocentrism - Black-centered History And Africa
The relationship among racial, cultural and continental identities is one of the more difficult problems in Afrocentic thought. Despite t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Pyramid Of Giza: Encyclopedia - Great Pyramid Of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza (29°58′41″N, 31°07′53″E) is the oldest and last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Smenkhkare: Encyclopedia Ii - Smenkhkare - Family
Smenkhkare's parentage is unknown - the leading theories are that he is a son of Akhenaten or of Amenhotep III. Unlike the majority of ot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twenty-fifth Dynasty Of Egypt: Encyclopedia - Twenty-fifth Dynasty Of Egypt
Known rulers, in the History of Egypt, for the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty. The Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Fourth and Twe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hatshepsut: Encyclopedia Ii - Hatshepsut - Names
As with most pharaohs, Hatshepsut had a number of names. Her birth name, or nomen, was Hatshepsut, to which she suffixed the epithet Khen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Smenkhkare: Encyclopedia Ii - Smenkhkare - Tomb
In 1907, Arthur Weigall and Theodore Davis discovered a tomb known as "Tomb 55" in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb itself is a mystery,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hatshepsut: Encyclopedia Ii - Hatshepsut - Family And Pre-pharaonic Life
She was the eldest daughter of Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose, both of whom were of fully royal blood. Thutmose I and Ahmose are known to ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Afrocentrism - Egypt And The Argument Of African Cultural Unity
Afrocentrists claim that early dynastic Egypt was a black civilization.[citation needed] Modern geopolitics generally place Egypt in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Afrocentrism - History Of Afrocentrism
The beginnings of modern Afrocentric scholarship can be found in the work of African-American and Caribbean intellectuals early in the tw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Africa - European Exploration And Conquest
History of Africa - Portuguese. With the Battle of Ceuta Africa had ceased to belong solely to the Mediterranean world. Among those who...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Pyramid Of Giza: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Pyramid Of Giza - Construction And Internal Layout
At construction, the Great Pyramid was 280 Egyptian Old Royal Cubits tall (146.5 metres or 481 feet), but due to erosion and the theft of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of Middle Eastern History: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Middle Eastern History - Prehistoric And Ancient Period
main article: Ancient Near East Timeline of Middle Eastern History - 9th millennium BC Beginning of the Neolithic time period of the Hol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Imhotep: Encyclopedia Ii - Imhotep - Modern Cultural Impact
Imhotep is also the name of a fictional character played by Boris Karloff in the 1932 movie The Mummy, and of a similar character played ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Afrocentrism - The Debate Over Afrocentrism
Critics of Afrocentrism counter that much historical Afrocentric research simply lacks scientific merit and that it actually seeks to sup...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Pyramid Of Giza: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Pyramid Of Giza - Labor
Many varied estimates have been made regarding the labor force needed to construct the Great Pyramid. Herodotus, the Greek historian in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Pyramid Of Giza: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Pyramid Of Giza - Age And Location
Believed by mainstream egyptologists to have been constructed in approximately 20 years, the most widely accepted estimate for its date o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Pyramid Of Giza: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Pyramid Of Giza - Labor
Many varied estimates have been made regarding the labor force needed to construct the Great Pyramid. Herodotus, the Greek historian in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of Middle Eastern History: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Middle Eastern History - The Ottoman Era
(circa since 1453 when Ottoman emirs captured Constantinople) (main article: History of the Ottoman Empire) 1869 - Construction of the S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of Middle Eastern History: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Middle Eastern History - Turks Crusaders And Mongols
(The dominance of the Arabs came to a sudden end in the mid 11th century with the arrival of the Seljuk Turks) c. 1347, a fleet of Genoe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of Middle Eastern History: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Middle Eastern History - The Arab Middle East
Timeline of Middle Eastern History - 1st millennium BC. Egypt declined as a major power The Tanakh was written Cyrus the Great conquer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Pyramid Of Giza: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Pyramid Of Giza - Alternative Theories
In common with many other monumental structures from antiquity, the Great Pyramid has over time been the subject of a great number of spe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Pyramid Of Giza: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Pyramid Of Giza - Labor And Construction Theories
Many varied estimates have been made regarding the labor force needed to construct the Great Pyramid. Herodotus, the Greek historian in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Pyramid Of Giza: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Pyramid Of Giza - Age And Location
Believed by mainstream egyptologists to have been constructed in approximately 20 years, the most widely accepted estimate for its date o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Pyramid Of Giza: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Pyramid Of Giza - Construction
At construction, the Great Pyramid was 280 Egyptian Old Royal Cubits tall (146.5 metres or 481 feet), but due to erosion and the theft of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Afrocentrism - A Different World-view
I am apt to suspect the Negroes...to be naturally inferior to the White. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Pyramid Of Giza: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Pyramid Of Giza - Age And Location
Believed by mainstream egyptologists to have been constructed in approximately 20 years, the most widely accepted estimate for its date o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Afrocentrism - Black-centered History And Africa
The relationship among racial, cultural and continental identities is one of the more difficult problems in Afrocentic thought. Despite t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Africa - Postcolonial Era:1945-present
History of Africa - Decolonization. Main articles: Decolonization, Decolonization of Africa The Decolonization in Africa started with L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Afrocentrism - Egypt And The Argument Of African Cultural Unity
Afrocentrists claim that early dynastic Egypt was a black civilization.[citation needed] Modern geopolitics generally place Egypt in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Afrocentrism - History Of Afrocentrism
The beginnings of modern Afrocentric scholarship can be found in the work of African-American and Caribbean intellectuals early in the tw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Africa - 20th Century: 1900-1945
History of Africa - Africa at the start of the 20th century. All of the continent was claimed by European powers, except for Ethiopia (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Africa - History Of Sub-saharan Africa Until 1500 A.d.
History of Africa - Medieval empires. There were many great empires in Sub-saharan Africa over the past few millennia. These were mostl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Africa - History Of North Africa 3500 B.c. - 1500 A.d.
History of Africa - Ancient Egypt. Main articles: History of Ancient Egypt, Kush Written history originated in Ancient Egypt, and the E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Africa - Paleolithic
History of Africa - Evolution of hominids and Homo sapiens in Africa. Main article: Human evolution Africa was the birthplace of both t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Africa - Neolithic Prehistoric Cultures
History of Africa - North Africa. Main article: History of the Sahara Neolithic rock engravings, or 'petroglyphs' and the megaliths in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Egypt - Third Intermediate Period
After the death of Rameses XI, the High Priests of Amun at Thebes, in the person of Piankh, assumed control of Upper Egypt, ruling from T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Egypt - Open Problems
There are several open problems concerning ancient Egyptian history. Conclusions on the origins of the Hyksos and their first leaders are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom
The Eighteenth Dynasty marks the beginning of the New Kingdom. Various pharaohs extended the control of Egypt further than ever before, r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Egypt - Late Period
Memphis and the Delta region became the target of many attacks from the Assyrians, until Psammetichus managed to reunite Middle and Lower...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Egypt - Early Dynastic Period
The origins of the unified Egyptian state are unclear, and there are no contemporary sources, and later sources are unclear and contradic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Egypt - Egyptian Chronology
Egyptian history is broken into several different periods according to the dynasty of the ruling pharaoh. The dating of events in Egyptia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Egypt - Protodynastic Period
Along the Nile, in the 10th millennium BC, a grain-grinding culture using the earliest type of sickle blades had become replaced by anoth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Egypt - First Intermediate Period
This era includes the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties and into the First Intermediate Period. The Old Kingdom became weakened by famine and wea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Ancient Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Ancient Egypt - Middle Kingdom
Around 2055 BCE, Mentuhotep II from Thebes ended this period of unrest and united the country again. He installed a new administration an...   » Read the article