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INTRODUCTION

This conventional Chronology of the Rulers of Ancient Egypt , taking into account well accepted developments during the 20th century but not including any of the major revision proposals that have also been made in that time.

Even within a single work, often archeologists will offer several possible dates or even several whole chronologies as possibilities. Consequently, there may be discrepancies between dates shown here and in articles on particular rulers. Often there are also several possible spellings of the names.

All dates are BC .


Sources

  • Predynastic Egypt is from Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt .

  • The dates of Dynasties 1 to 10 are from Baines and Malek, ''Atlas of Ancient Egypt'' (Oxford, 1980).

  • The dates of Dynasties 11 to 20 are from Kitchen, "The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in Relation to the Bronze Age", in Astrom (ed) ''High, Middle or Low'' (Gothengurg, 1987), taking his low chronology.

  • Ken Kitchen uses textual artifacts such as the form and sequence of the blessings and curses used to bind contracts, the price of slaves as mentioned in everything from cuneiform texts to the Bible in context with the political and cultural interactions of the Ancient Near East to get a range or spread of about a century plus or minus for his chronologies.

  • The dates of Dynasties 21 to 26 are from Kitchen, ''Third Intermediate Period in Egypt'' (1973, Warminster).

    • (This information has been supplemented from ''The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt'', edited by Ian Shaw (Oxford, 2000), and Digital Egypt for Universities , which was developed by The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology .)


It should be noted that there is a 60 year discrepancy between the dates proposed by these two authors. There is no attempt to remove this discrepancy in the combined chronology presented below.

This is a “Conventional Chronology” as discussed by David Rohl in ''A Test of Time'' (1995, Century). Though David Rohl bases his chronology on a number of conjectures which remain controversial such as there being more than one coterminous Dynasty in certain periods of Egyptian history and his spread or range of disagreement with other sources is close to three centuries in places, his theories have served to show how flimsy the substantive parts of Egyptian chronology actually are in places.

See also


PROTODYNASTIC PERIOD


Dynasty 0 ''circa'' 3100–2920



EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD


1st Dynasty 2920-2770



2nd Dynasty 2770-2650



Position uncertain

  • Sneferka

  • Ba (two different writings, possibly two separate kings)



OLD KINGDOM


3rd Dynasty 2649-2575



4th Dynasty 2575-2134



5th Dynasty



6th Dynasty



7th Dynasty 2150-2134

:In the kinglist summaries from the third century BC historian Manetho , this is a group of 70 kings ruling 70 days: there is no evidence for this - it may be a later literary metaphor for chaos at the end of the Sixth Dynasty, chaos for which there is also no direct contemporary evidence.
Budge, in ''The Nile'' (Thos. Cook and Sons, Egypt, 1902) lists VII, VIII, from Memphis IX and X from Herocleopolis together giving the cartouches. Baines and Ma'lik give the dates 7th/8th.
  • Nfr ka

  • Nfr sb

  • Nfr kau Ra

  • Xaroi

  • Nfr ka ra

  • Nfr ka ra nbi

  • Tet ka ra ma3t

  • Nfr ka ra xntu

  • Snfr ka

  • Ka n ra

  • Nfr ka ra trw l

  • Mr n Hrw

  • S nfr ka ra

  • Nfr ka Hrw

  • Nfr ka Ra Ppy snb

  • Nfr ka Ra an nu u

  • Nfr ka Ra

  • Nfr kau Hrw

  • Nfr ka ari Ra



8th Dynasty



Kings with Unknown Position


= First Intermediate Period 2134 - 2040 =

9th and 10th Dynasties 2135-1986




11th Dynasty 2134-2040

(Dates from Baines and Ma'lek)

= Middle Kingdom 2040 - 1640 =


11th Dynasty (continued)

: In Dynasty 11 from Thebes the Antefs first appear.
: Control of Egypt shifts from the Delta to Thebes and Red Sea connections to Nub.
  • Erpa Antef (Erpa = hereditary prince)

  Nswbt (shtp Ab Ra) Sa Ra (amn M Ht) "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Amenemhat_I" class="copylinks">Amenemhat I (Sehetepibre) 1937-1908 (1991-1962)
  Nswbt (hpr Ka Ra) Sa Ra (wsr Srt Sn) "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Senusret_I" class="copylinks">Senuseret I (Kheperkare) 1917-1872 (1971-1926)
  Nswbt (nub Kau Ra) Sa Ra (wsr Srt Sn) "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Amenemhat_II" class="copylinks">Amenemhat II (Nubkaure) 1875-1840 (1929-1892)
  Nswbt ( ) ( ) "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Senusret_II" class="copylinks">Senuseret II (Khakheperre) 1842-1836 (1897-1878)
  Nswbt (ma3t Mht3 N Ra)sa Ra(amn M Ht) "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Amenemhat_III" class="copylinks">Amenemhat III (Nimaartre) 1817-1772)(1844-1797)
  Nswbt ( ) ( ) "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Senusret_III" class="copylinks">Senuseret III (Khakaure) 1836-1817 (1878-1841)
  Nswbt (ma3t Mht3 N Ra)sa Ra(amn M Ht) "[Amenemhat" class="copylinks" target="_blank">IV (Maakherure) 1772-1763(1799-1783)
  Nswbt (sebek Nfru Ra) "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Neferusobek" class="copylinks">Neferusobek (Sobekkare) 1763-1759 (1787-1783)