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  History of Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
His reign was a golden age for Egypt and Salah al-Din is revered as one of the greatest heroes of Islam, for his humility, personal courage, brilliant military and administrative mind and for defeating the Christian armies and treating the vanquished with dignity.
Egypt was the first Arab state to recognize Israel's right to exist and the subsequent Camp David agreements, which won Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin the Nobel Peace Prize, further isolated Egypt from the rest of the Arab world.
Egypt's vital role in support of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the Gulf War combined with death of socialist-communist influence in the Arab world returned the country to the centre of Middle Eastern politics.
international.fullerton.edu /egypt/history.html   (8232 words)

  
 Ancient Egyptian Dynasties
Egypt lies in northeast Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea.
Around 3000 BC, Egypt emerged from the twilight of prehistory as one country, united under the single rule of a divine king.
She committed suicide on August 12, 30 BC at the age of 39 thus ending the are of the dynasties.
www.crystalinks.com /egyptdynasties.html   (447 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Egypt
In ancient Egypt the tuft of papyrus was the coat of arms or symbol of the Northern Kingdom.
This is in particular the case for the Seventh and Eighth dynasties (Memphites), the Ninth and Tenth (Heracleopolites), the Eleventh (Theban -- contemporary with the Tenth), the Thirteenth (Theban) and the Fourteenth (Xoite -- in part simultaneous), the Fifteenth, and the Sixteenth (Hyksos), and the Seventeenth Dynasty (Theban -- partly contemporary with the Sixteenth.
From Khafre, the second king of the fourth dynasty, to the end of the sixth dynasty, the name Re is a part of the name of almost every one of those kings, and the monuments show that during that period numerous temples were erected to the chief of the Heliopolitan Ennead in the neighbouring nomes.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05329b.htm   (18093 words)

  
 Twenty-eighth dynasty of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Known rulers, in the History of Egypt, for the Twenty-Eighth Dynasty.
The Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-First Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Late Period.
The Twenty-Eighth Dynasty of Egypt had one ruler, Amyrtaeus, who was a descendant of the Saite kings of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty, and led a successful revolt against the Persians on the death of Darius II.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twenty-eighth_dynasty_of_Egypt   (117 words)

  
 Egypt: History - Pharaonic Dynasty I
Egypt's 1st Dynasty saw the emergence of a unified land stretching from the Delta to the first cataract at Aswan, a distance of over one thousand kilometers along the Nile Valley.
The problems raised by the first four kings of the 1st Dynasty, with Menes at their head, are less easily solved and demand a wider perspective than has sufficed for the last four.
But the Horus Den, the fifth king of Egypt's 1st Dynasty,, was also prominent upon the jar-sealings, which mention too a 'seal-bearer of the King of Lower Egypt' with a name compounded with that of the goddess Neith.
interoz.com /egypt/hdyn1.htm   (4648 words)

  
 Egyptian Kings and Pharaohs
Dynasties, an Egyptian king was given a unique combination of five names.
Before the4th Dynasty the king was generally known only by his Horus name.
Although the sequence of five names or titles was a necessary requirement for the king, rarely are they actually seen used together except on the occasion of his coronation.
www.b17.com /family/lwp/people/egyptian.html   (138 words)

  
 Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During the 22nd through 26th dynasties, the cities of Athribis and Heliopolis were under the control of a hereditary princedom, nominally subservient to the Pharaohs.
Egypt was an Augustan province so the governors were appointed directly by the Emperor rather than by the traditional Senatorial lottery.
Because of the importance of Egypt as the Empire's breadbasket, by law the governor of Egypt could not be of the Senatorial class (it was feared that consolidating too much power in a Senator invited revolt).
www.hostkingdom.net /egypt.html   (2522 words)

  
 Manetho's 7th and 8th Dynasties
His Fourth Dynasty of 17 kings, for instance, certainly is out of proportion, and appears to be the sum of 8 + 9, the numeric sequence of kings in Africanus’s Fourth and Fifth Dynasty combined.
This suggests that it is a concatenation of the 21 kings of the Sixth Dynasty Memphite line with the 5 kings in his Seventh Dynasty and the 5 kings in his Eighth Dynasty, an error consistent with his previously described errors.
Since Africanus’s Eighth Dynasty appears to be a summation line for the Sixth Dynasty, both the Africanus and Eusebius lists appear to have confused a line of summation for the first six dynasties with a description of a Seventh Dynasty.
ggreenberg.tripod.com /ancientne/manetho5.html   (3045 words)

  
 Three ancient Egyptian sieges: Megiddo, Dapur, Hermopolis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In the eighth year of his reign Ramses was reconquering the Galilee.
By the time the Ethiopians made their incursions into Egypt, walls, siege tactics and equipment had undergone changes, mostly influenced by developments in the Asiatic East.
While some of the Lower Egyptian towns were besieged, Piye decided against this in the case of Memphis after Tefnakht had gone north to raise troops for the defense of the city.
nefertiti.iwebland.com /weapons/siege_warfare.htm   (1754 words)

  
 Egyptian Interaction with the Middle East
Egypt most likely had some type of interaction with the Persian Empire throughout its history, but nothing as substantial as what occurred late in the history of the Egyptian Empire.
This was the last great dynasty in Egypt, and it saw the rebirth of art and architecture, as well as the introduction of new technologies to Egypt.
This began the Twenty-eighth Dynasty in which Egypt was ruled by native kings with the help of Greek mercenaries.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/othercultures/egyptpersians.html   (405 words)

  
 Timeline Egypt
The fertile Nile Valley and prevailing environmental conditions led to the formation of villages along the river—Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north.
1663BC In Egypt Shesi ruled at the beginning of the 15th Dynasty and was succeeded by Yakubher, Khyan, Apepi I, Apepi II, Anather in the 16th Dynasty, Yakobaam, Sobekemsaf II in the 17th Dynasty, and Intef VII.
Horemhab is thought to have prevented the dynastic marriage of Ankhesnamun, the widow of Tutankhamun, to prince Zananza, son of the Hittite king, Suppilliliumas.
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 The First Intermediate Period in Egypt
He was the governor of the Twentieth Nome of Upper Egypt, centred on Heracleopolis and seized the throne, laying down the foundations of the Ninth and Tenth Dynasties.
In the mid Eleventh Dynasty Mentuhotep I, who is normally regarded as being the first king of the Middle Kingdom, selected a bay in the cliffs at Deir el-Bahri for the site of his burial.
The end of dynasty XI constitutes the beginning of the Middle Kingdom, and is marked by the reappearance of a strong central power controlling all of Egypt.
www.yare.org /essays/fip.htm   (2568 words)

  
 The Libyans in Egypt
The beginning of the Libyan Dynasty was dated to -945 because a synchronical link was claimed to exist between the Biblical references to Pharaoh Shishak who conquered Palestine in the fifth year after Solomon, and Shoshenk Hedjkheperre of the Libyan dynasty.
Now to bring Shoshenk Hedjkheperre to the head of the Libyan Dynasty is unnecessary; actually he will be shown to belong to the end of the period of Libyan domination in Egypt, and to be the Pharaoh So of the Scriptures.
During the greater part of the eighth century, when the Libyan Dynasty of Osorkons and Shoshenks ruled over Egypt, the kings of this country vied with the kings of Assyria for influence in Palestine and Phoenicia.
www.varchive.org /tac/libyans.htm   (832 words)

  
 Egypt: History - Dynasty XIX (Nineteenth Dynasty)
In spite of all, Egypt still presents an aspect of wonderful grandeur, which the greater abundance of this period's monuments makes better known to the present-day tourist than the far finer products of earlier times.
His own tomb in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings was planned to rival in size that of his predecessor, and only stopped short, doubtless owing to his death, at the chamber below the second flight of stairs, where his sarcophagus may still be seen.
Among her northerly neighbors Egypt's prestige had fallen to a very low level, a situation which Sethos at once set to work to repair.
www.touregypt.net /hdyn19a.htm   (4109 words)

  
 Egypt: History - Dynasty XXVIII (Twenty-eighth Dynasty)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The forty years ending with the death of Darius II in 404 BC are a complete blank so far as Egypt is concerned.
He makes his TWENTY-EIGHTH DYNASTY consist of a single king Amyrtaeus of Sais, presumably a kinsman of the Amyrtaeus who carried on the struggle of Inaros after the latter's capture by his enemies.
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