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History and Kingship
The backbone of ancient Egyptian history is formed by
the ever ongoing succession of its kings. As one can tell from the
kinglists that the Egyptians themselves kept, they too were heavily
impressed by it.
An outline of
the chronology of pharaonic Egypt
An introduction to the timeframe and (sub)divisions of three
millenia of history.
Kinglist
of the 1st till 6th dynasty
The names of the first kings of Egypt, in hieroglyphs
and in modern spelling, with the number of their years, and the place of
their tombs.
An outline of Egypt's early
history: from Early Dynastic till First Intermediate Period
A look into the first eight centuries of ancient
Egyptian history, with an emphasis on the mechanisms of power, politics
and administration.
The formative
period of pharaonic Egypt
This article describes the rise of pharaonic Egypt, seen from a cultural
perspective
(in PDF-format).
The cartouche
names of the New Kingdom
This longer article (57 pages) includes, next to a kinglist of the 18th till 20th
dynasties, a detailed description of the cartouche names of this
period, and an analysis (both qualitative and
quantitative)
of the epithets, used inside
these cartouches (in PDF-format).
(For alternative
chronologies and aliens, see the page
About Egyptology).
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