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  Egypt - Search View - MSN Encarta
The 3rd Dynasty (2647-2573 bc) was the first of the Memphite houses, and its second ruler, Zoser, or Djoser, emphasized national unity by balancing northern and southern motifs in his mortuary buildings at Saqqara.
As a consequence of internal strife, the reigns of this and the succeeding 8th Dynasty (2134-2124 bc) are rather obscure.
In fact the next two dynasties, the 23rd (818-715 bc) and 24th (727-715 bc), were contemporaneous with the latter part of the 22nd Dynasty, just as the 25th (Nubian) Dynasty effectively controlled much of Egypt during the last years of the 22nd and the 24th dynasties.
uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761557408__1/Egypt.html   (14087 words)

  
 Saturnian Cosmology - Polar Relocations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
I suspect that in 1492 BC Venus passed Earth on the night side in the spring.
Pole Swing in 1500 BC Velikovsky then attempts to build on the contradictory evidence of the seventh and eighth century BC to suggest a 20 degree shift of the north pole in 1500 BC.
It was Spring of 1492 BC, and the mammoth herds were happily grazing along the arctic circle in Siberia, just as humans had camped and hunted in the upper regions of Siberia since 30,000 BC, when suddenly the weather changed.
saturniancosmology.org /pol.php   (5959 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - 16th century BC - Calendar Encyclopedia
1512 BC (approx.): the flood of Deucalion, according to O'Flaherty, Augustine, Eusebius, and Isidore (bishop of Seville).
1500 BC - Indus valley civilization - The controversial Aryan Invasion Theory is often dated to 1500 BC.
Thutmose II of Egypt, Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (1518 BC - 1504 BC).
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /16th_century_BC.htm   (471 words)

  
 Qwika - similar:King_of_Athens
1250 BC - Wu Ding emperor of Shang Dynasty to...
Centuries: 14th century BC - 13th century BC - 12th century BC Decades: 1290s BC 1280s 1270s 1260s 1250s 1240s 1230s 1220s 1210s 1200s BC This bronze ritual wine vessel, dating from the Shang Dynasty in the 13th century BC, is housed at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.
The laws, transcribed in 621 BC when he was archon eponymous, were particularly harsh: the death penalty was the punishment for even minor of...
www.qwika.com /rels/King_of_Athens   (1323 words)

  
 Cairo Features | Fodor's Online Travel Guide
His daughter, Hatshepsut (1473-1458 BC), developed the monumental west-bank temple at Deir al-Bahri, which was cut out of the face of the mountain.
Pharaoh Seti I (1306-1290 BC) was able to reconquer the lands lost during the reign of Akhenaten.
The infamous Cleopatra (51-30 BC) was from this period, but she proved no match for the aggressive Romans and was the last of the Ptolomies.
www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=cairo@40&cur_section=fea&feature=30002   (2772 words)

  
 Kingdoms of North Africa - Ancient Egypt
In the late sixth millennium BC farming villages appeared in the Nile Valley.
From around 3500 to 3000 BC there were great and very sudden advances in craftsmanship and technology, which culminated in the working of copper, stone mace heads and ceramics.
c.3100 BC The process of consolidating the single kingdom is completed by the founding of a new capital at Memphis, strategically situated at the junction of the Nile Valley and the Delta.
www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsAfrica/EgyptAncient.htm   (1296 words)

  
 Saturnian Cosmology - Mechanics
Thus the planets loosened from Saturn in 3114 BC would have orbits which closed in on the Sun at perihelion, but at aphelion were at the distance from the Sun where Saturn and Jupiter met in 3114 BC.
The starting year 747 BC and the date of February 26 is use for the compilation of the "Era of Nabonasser" by Babylonian astronomers.
There have been suggestions that 701 BC should be used, but we have a parallel record for 687 BC from Chinese records, and the suggestion for the date of March 23.
saturniancosmology.org /mech.php   (7357 words)

  
 A timeline of the ancient Egyptians
2900 BC : king Djer is buried at Abydos, the seat of the cult of Osiris, lord of the Underworld and husband of Isis, and his "mastaba" becomes considered the grave of Osiris
1525 BC : Ahmose I dies and is succeeded by Amenhotep I
1492 BC : Tuthmosis I dies and is the first pharaoh buried in a tomb cut in the rock at the necropolis outside Thebes ("Valley of the Kings")
www.scaruffi.com /politics/egyptian.html   (1717 words)

  
 EGYPT, NORTHERN AFRICA
A Golden Age The 3rd Dynasty (2647-2573 BC) was the first of the Memphite houses, and its second ruler, Zoser, or Djoser, emphasized national unity by balancing northern and southern motifs in his mortuary buildings at Saqqara.
Second Intermediate Period (1801-1540 BC) The rulers of the 13th Dynasty (1801-1648 BC)-some 50 or more in about 160 years-were weaker than their predecessors, although they were still able to control Nubia and the administration of the central government.
When Thutmose III (reigned 1479-1425 BC) achieved sole rule upon Hatshepsut's death in 1457 BC, he re-conquered Syria and Palestine, which had broken away under joint rule, and then continued to expand his empire.
www.1001medrecipes.com /mEGYPT.htm   (13126 words)

  
 THEBES and the West Bank
The rulers of the 12th Dynasty (1985-1795 BC) established Thebes as the capital of Upper Egypt, and from then onwards Amun, the local god of Thebes became increasingly prominent.
Luxor temple was dedicated to the Theban Triad of Amun, Mut, and Khons and during the New Kingdom was the focus of the annual Opet Festival, where a cult statue of Amun was paraded down the Nile from nearby Karnak Temple.
Standing on the edge of the Nile floodplain, successive annual inundations gnawed away at the foundations and it was not unknown for later rulers to dismantle and reuse portions of their predecessors' monuments.
www.egyptologyonline.com /thebes.htm   (2482 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The Egyptian Conquest of Nubia and the Viceroyalty of Kush, 1550-1080 B.C. The Egyptian Conquest of Kush
This is implied by the carbon dates (about 1480 BC) obtained from the charred planks inset into the mud bricks of the Western Deffufa at Kerma.
From the mid-fifteenth to the twelfth centuries BC, Egypt directly ruled Upper and Lower Nubia through an elaborate administration headed by an official chosen from among the pharaoh's closest confidants.
www.nubianet.org /about/about_history5.html   (1351 words)

  
 The Quest for Immortality
Eighteenth Dynasty, reign of Hatshepsut, 1473-1458 BC granodiorite
Seventeenth Dynasty, 1580 BC ebony, ivory, and faience
Twenty-sixth Dynasty, reign of Psamtik I, 664-610 BC graywacke
www.daytonartinstitute.org /exhibits/egypt/ex_checklist.htm   (2447 words)

  
 Hatshepsut - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
1504 BC - 1458 BC) was the fifth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.
She is believed to have ruled from 1473 BC to 1458 BC.
After the death of her father in 1492 BC she married her half-brother Thutmose II and assumed the title of Great Royal Wife.
www.egnu.org /thelemapedia/index.php/Hatshepsut   (1363 words)

  
 1500s BC
Centuries: 17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BC
Decades: 1550s BC 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC 1510s BC - 1500s BC - 1490s BC 1480s BC 1470s BC 1460s BC 1450s BC
Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant (1504 BC - 1492 BC)
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/15/1500_BC.html   (88 words)

  
 Shane's Hiking Journal
In 1492 BC she ordered an expedition to the ancient land of Punt (probably in the modern-day East African country of Somalia).
From 1000 BC to 800 AD the Polynesians nearly perfected naked eye Celestial Navigation, and used their astonishing navigational skills to find their way among the distant islands of the Pacific Ocean without the benefit of the instruments used by later sailors.
The principles of the astrolabe were known before 150 B.C., and true astrolabes were made before A.D. The astrolabe was highly developed in the Islamic world by A.D. 800 and was introduced to Europe from Islamic Spain (Andalusia) in the early 12th century.
www.theplacewithnoname.com /hiking/sections/skills/navigation.htm   (6365 words)

  
 Dynasty 18 - Tuthmosis I, Tuthmosis II, Hatshepsut, Tuthmosis III
Tuthmosis II, Pharaoh - 1482-1479 B.C. Tuthmosis II might never have ruled Egypt but for the early death of Wadjmose and Amenmose, the eldest sons of Tuthmosis I, leaving him as the only heir.
The Queen Who Would Be King - 1473-1458 B.C. Hatshepsut was an 18th-dynasty pharaoh who was one of the handful of female rulers in Ancient Egypt.
Her self-promotion, which extended to a miraculous conception and fictitious coronation in childhood, involved deliberately obscuring the rightful ruler, Tuthmosis III, who was a man by the time he succeeded to unfettered rulership in 1483 BC.
www.crystalinks.com /dynasty18a.html   (4179 words)

  
 Ancient Egypt Magazine
Visitors to the great temple of Amun at Karnak today see the impressive remains of what is essentially a New Kingdom temple (1550-1069 BC) greatly enlarged during successive reigns and periods throughout the remainder of Egypt’s long history.
This earlier temple was built during the Middle Kingdom (2055-1650 BC) by Theban rulers who had reunited Egypt under their rule after a period of internal disorder in the country.
It was found that the re-discovered chapel had been built by Senusret I (1965-1920 BC) and were of the finest limestone, carved with exquisite reliefs and hieroglyphs.
www.ancientegyptmagazine.com /whitechapel26.htm   (622 words)

  
 linen
This is one of the earliest surviving textile fragments from the Nile Valley: it has about 12 by 9 threads per cm (click here for detail).
Fragment from the wrappings of the mummy of king Thutmose II (1492-1479 BC) (UC 55044): it is possible that the linen dates to the time of reburial at Deir el-Bahari, in the Third Intermediate Period, about 950 BC).
This is relatively closely dateable to the mid-first century AD by the style of the hairstyle and jewellery depicted on the cartonnage casing from which it comes (image at right).
www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /textil/wovenlinen.htm   (337 words)

  
 Origins of Telecomputing: 1
March 14, 1516 BC, and at age 18 became a teacher of elocution.
October 12, 1492 BC and then invented a new verification process called the beta test, which consisted of trying to teach her neighbors how to use the alphabet.
It should be noted that Nullstein didn’t actually know that she invented the alphabet in 1492 BC because the ridiculous Gregorian Calendar hadn’t been invented yet.
www.stanford.edu /~learnest/telecomputing.htm   (4758 words)

  
 Doctor Who Chronology: Alphabetical Title Index
Caves of Androzani, The: 1 000 000 000 BC, 2784
Destiny of the Daleks: 12 000 000 000 BC, 5700 BC, 4100, 4498, 4500, 4590
Genesis of the Daleks: 6700 BC, 5700 BC, 1976, 17 000
www.angelfire.com /scifi/drwho/index1.htm   (895 words)

  
 Virtual Tour #4- Akhenaten and the Aten Religion
The sun god Atum was often referred to reside in the sun's disk, but it was not until the reign of Thutmosis I (1504-1492 BC) that the Aten is specifically referred to as a god in its own right.
It was nearly another hundred years later that the first image of the Aten appeared on a monument at Giza during the kingship of Amenhotep II (1427-1401 BC).
In 1353 BC Akhenaten assumed the throne of Egypt with a seemingly clear goal.
www-scf.usc.edu /~cipolla/virtour4.htm   (974 words)

  
 hatshepsut
By all accounts, however, Thutmose II was an overweight, sickly, weakling and allowed Hatshepsut to run the affairs of the monarchy unopposed during their 13 years of marriage (1492-1479 BC).
Upon the death of Thutmose II, Hatshepsut startled the nation by boldly announcing that she was a man. She donned a fake beard, male clothes, and changed her name from Hatshepsitu to Hatshepsut, its male equivalent.
She was such a shrewd administrator, sending ambassadors to all her conquered lands, that gold tributes became so plentiful they no longer were weighed but measured in bushel baskets.
www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /diversity/hatshepsut.htm   (989 words)

  
 obelisk
Recent excavations have pushed the history of Karnak back to around 3200 BC, when there was a small settlement on the bank of the Nile where Karnak now stands.The great temple complex at Karnak is, however, mostly a Middle Kingdom creation.
Archaeological excavation reveals that the complex was in a near constant state of construction and deconstruction, and that almost every king of the Middle Kingdom left some mark of his presence at Karnak.
In 14 BC, Augustus ordered their removal to Alexandria to grace the grounds of the Caesareum.
www.masters-table.org /pagan/oblis.htm   (1424 words)

  
 Temple Gardens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
These sacred lakes or pools allowed both the Hem Netjer (Priesthood) and the Shemsu (followers) to attend and perform their religious rites in a state of purity, which was of the utmost importance to the Egyptians.
Nineteen speicies of trees were reprpesnted in the garden of Ineni, architect to Thutmose I (1505-1492 BC), and among the most popular was the -flowered tamarisk, the acacia and the willow.
Cornflowers, mandrakes, poppies, daisies and other small flowers were grown among the trees and like the lotus flowers, and some of the tree floilage, could be used in the making of garlands for banquets and other occassions.
showcase.netins.net /web/ankh/garden.html   (393 words)

  
 Mnemonic: Remembering Biblical Dates
In 1492 BC Moses was placed on the water like Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492
Samson pushed apart the two pillars of the stadium, which are 11 for 1100 BC.
Carrying two barrels (8) of water to contest the Priests of Baal is 800 BC
members.chello.nl /r.kuijt/en_biblicaldates.htm   (137 words)

  
 Hatshepsut - Famous Egyptians - Hatshepsut the female Pharaoh of New Kingdom Egypt.
After the death of her father in 1492 BC she married her younger half-brother Thutmose II and assumed the title of Great Royal Wife.
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 regent until he came of age.
As Pharaoh, Hatshepsut commissioned an expedition to the Land of Punt and reestablished the trade networks that had been disrupted during the Hyksos occupation of Egypt (the Second Intermediate Period), the wealth of the 18th dynasty—that has become so famous since the discovery of the burial of Tutankhamun—began to be collected.
www.suziemanley.com /famous_egyptians/hatshepsut.htm   (618 words)

  
 The Medical Racket
10,000 BC Extinction of most large mammals in the Americas, also possibly caused by human over-hunting, probably also influenced by climate changes.  Dogs are the first domestic animals, appearing in the Fertile Crescent region.
900 BC Asclepius lives at this time, and eventually became “sainted” in Greek culture and became the Greek god of healing during its classical period.  The mythological Asclepius was the son of Apollo, who was the son of Zeus.  Hygeia and Panacea were Asclepius’ daughters. 
432 BC Peak of the Greek classic period.  Hippocrates, Socrates, Thucydides and Aristophanes are alive.  During Peloponnesian War (begun in 431 BC), war-crowded Athens is afflicted with a plague (probably smallpox or typhus) in 430 that lasts three years, killing about a third of the population and leading to Athens’ decline.
www.ahealedplanet.net /medicine.htm   (4528 words)

  
 Ancient Egyptian Timeline
The first religious words were written on the walls of the royal tombs.
2160 BC Capitol moves from Memphis to Herakleopolis in northern Middle Egypt - Upper Egypt controlled by Theban rulers.
300 BC The Temple of Isis was built on the island of Philae in the Nile River.
library.thinkquest.org /CR0210200/ancient_egypt/timeline.htm   (933 words)

  
 ANISTORITON: In Situ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the 11th Dynasty Egypt is ruled from Thebes by the (Antefs)'s and in the 12th Dynasty c 1991-1783 BC by the (Amen em hat)'s.
A.) In the period between c 1800 and c 1200 BC while the Hittite and Mittani empires are expanding vigorously into the lands of the Amurru the Egyptians and their holdings in Canaan seem to be driven steadily southward.
C.) Domestication of the horse: From Syro-Anatolia toIndia the domesticated horse is first utilized c 1800 BC D.) Shamash Adad died c 1780 BC, Zimri Lin his son was conquored by Hamurapi the king of Babylon c 1757 BC E.) Tuthmosis I (1504 -1492 BC) extended Egypts sphere of influence to the Euphrates
www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/p011.htm   (1584 words)

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