Ancient Egypt

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  • 5000 BCE

    Farming communities began to apear in both Egypt and Nubia

  • 2589 BCE

    Builders begin Great Pyramid

  • 2533 BCE

    Great Sphinx statue is completed

  • Period: 1991 BCE to 1786 BCE

    Egypt expands into Lower Nubia, literature and art flourish

  • 1567 BCE

    New kingdom begins

  • Period: 1504 BCE to 1450 BCE

    Reign of Thutmose III, empire expands into Syria

  • Period: 1503 BCE to 1482 BCE

    Queen Hatshepsut rules

  • 322 BCE

    Egypt fell to the famous conqueror Alexander the Great of Macedonia

  • 51 BCE

    Queen Cleopatra VII became the last Macedonian to rule Egypt

  • 31 BCE

    Egypt became part of the Roman Empire

  • 400

    Writing hieroglyphics was lost

  • The Rosetta stone