The Amazing Thing About Ancient Egypt
Even if we time
old Egypt as the period of
the history of Egypt since
the invention of the hieroglyph can define wrote at the end of the old concept
that refers specifically to the civilization on the banks of the Nile in this period of almost four thousand years of
history. THE EGYPTIAN collection of
the tribes who has created the first pharaonic Empire to its collapse at the
beginning of the Christian era, ancient Egypt
has witnessed important events that have greatly influenced the culture of a
large part of the peoples of Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
It is the late
Neolithic tribes that began to gather in the fertile valley of THE NILE RIVER, leading to the
formation of two politically separate kingdoms but closely connected by a
common culture: Egypt and lower Egypt south high to the North (the Nile flow
from South to North, these names). Parts of the history of Egypt in important periods and
dynasties in thirty-one is taken from the 3rd century BC historian priest.
Pre-dynastic period: the so-called Kings of the North.
The Palermo stone mentions ten kings wearing the double Crown, a symbol of upper and lower Egypt together but without their names.
Period early dynastic period:
First pharaonic
dynasties (this capital, near ' Abydos).
Former Empire:
considered by the ancient Egyptians and the golden age of their civilization
with, among other things, the construction of the great pyramids.
I have RE between
period: period of political instability and fragmentation of the country into
two rival kingdoms.
Middle Kingdom:
tree, stable and strong artistic activity.
Second period:
Period of serious
disturbances, the occupation of the land by the Hyksos, liberation of the
country by Ahmose.
New Empire: the
most prosperous period in the history of
Egypt, has a revival of the cultural and artistic whose top has been
reached with the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties, but the era of Thutmose I
of AMENHOTEP III (Amenophis) and
Ramessides (including RAMSES II).
Third period:
Period of the
civil war, the Kings priests, Libyan and Ethiopian dominance (Kush),
Assyrian invasion.
The end of the ancient Egyptian history varies
depending on the viewpoint. He concludes:
Ethnology, the
death of the last native Pharaoh, Nectanebo II-343;
culturally,
during the conversion of the last Temple Egyptian Coptic Church, the Temple of Isis
at Philae in 535 (closing in 551).
