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	Ancient Egypt - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This last, however, did not represent the first period of foreign domination; the Roman period was to witness a marked, if gradual transformation in the political and religious life of the Nile Valley, effectively marking the termination of independent civilizational development.
		Motivating and organising these activities were a socio-political and economic elite that achieved social consensus by means of an elaborate system of religious belief under the figure of a (semi)-divine ruler (usually male) from a succession of ruling dynasties and which related to the larger world by means of polytheistic beliefs.
		Ancient Egypt's foreign contacts included Nubia and Punt to the south, the Aegean and ancient Greece to the north, the Levant and other regions in the Near East to the east, and also Libya to the west.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Ancient_Egypt (4267 words)

	Predynastic Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Predynastic period of Egypt is the period that culminates in the rise of the Old Kingdom and the first of the thirty dynasties based on royal residences, by which Egyptologists divide the history of Pharaonic civilization, using a schedule laid out first by Manetho 's Aegyptaica.
		The structure of the nomes, into which Egypt was divided, predates the First Dynasty, and there are inscriptions of pre-dynastic kings such as Narmer.
		6th millennium BC Subsistence in organized and permanent settlements in ancient Egypt by the middle of the 6th millennium BC centered predominantly on cereal and animal agriculture : cattle, goats, pigs and sheep [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Predynastic_Period_of_Egypt (588 words)

	Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Egypt Antiquities The Ministry of Tourism gives a detailed history, comprehensive monuments guide, rulers of Egypt, a who's who of Egypt, mythology, a virtal museum, and illustrated essays on culture and people.
		Table of Events - Ancient Egypt A chronological list of important rulers and events that occurred during their reign, from the Predynastic Period to the end of the New Kingdom.
		Abzu: Egypt Index of resources for the study of ancient Egypt by Charles E. Jones, The Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, Chicago.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Second_Intermediate_Period_of_Egypt.html (459 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Focus \| Egypt before the Pharaohs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Predynastic culture was fast acquiring those specificities that we today instantly recognise as characteristic of dynastic Egypt: an obsession with tombs and the afterlife, a preponderance of animal deities, a centralised government and the appurtenances of statehood, the first etchings of hieroglyphics, royal symbols and religious iconography.
		The third stage of predynastic cultural development began at around 4,000 BC and is referred to as the Gerzean Period or Naqada III, in reference to the village of Gerzah halfway between Saqqara and Fayoum, on the western bank of the Nile.
		Surviving dwellings from the predynastic periods are uncommon and a rare exception, however, is the house and workshop of a potter who signed his pots in one of Egypt's earliest urban settlements -- Hierakonpolis, the Falcon city.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/508/fo3.htm (3091 words)

	The Two Lands: Archaic Egypt
		Of all the kings of Egypt, Narmer is among the most legendary; for according to Egyptians, he united the two parts of Egypt and became the first king of the Two Lands, Upper and Lower Egypt.
		The symbol of this unification are the two crowns of Egypt, the white crown (Upper Egypt) and the red crown (Lower Egypt); these crowns would be combined to form the single crown of the king.
		The early kings of Archaic Egypt had to yearly prove that they were physically capable of ruling Egypt in a festival called the Sed ("slaughter," "slaying") festival.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/EGYPT/TWOLANDS.HTM (688 words)

	Predynastic Egypt
		The Predynastic Period of Egypt (prior to 3100 BC) is the period that culminates in the rise of the Old Kingdom and the first of the thirty dynasties based on royal residences, by which Egyptologists divide the history of pharaonic civilization using a schedule laid out first by Manetho's Aegyptiaca.
		By 6,000 BC predynastic Egyptians in the southwestern corner of Egypt were herding cattle and constructing large buildings.
		Subsistence in organized and permanent settlements in ancient Egypt by the middle of the 6th millennium BC centered predominantly on cereal and animal agriculture: cattle, goats, pigs and sheep.
	www.crystalinks.com /predynasticegypt.html (783 words)

	The Antiquity of Man Egyptian Predynastic
		Myers excavated a Predynastic village in are 1000 (Mond and Myers 1937: 163), 2 km from Predynastic Cemetery 1400-1500, with graves ranging in age from Nagada Ic to IIIa.
		Predynastic evidence is known in the Qift (Coptos) region, on the river opposite Nagada, and in the Wadi Hammamat.
		Maadi I. The Pottery of the Predynastic Settlement.
	www.antiquityofman.com /EgyptianPredynastic.html (14144 words)

	The Ancient Egypt Site - The Early Dynastic Period
		The Early Dynastic Period is a period of some 500 years or more at the beginning of what is conventionally considered as the history of Ancient Egypt.
		It was during this period that the divine kingship became well established as Egypt's form of government, and with it, an entire culture that would remain virtually unchanged for the next 3000 or more years.
		This may indicate in shift in views on the divine kingship: during the first three dynasties, the king was a living embodiment of the god Horus, whereas from the 4th Dynasty on, he came to be the son of the solar god Re.
	www.ancient-egypt.org /history/01_03 (1126 words)

	McClung Museum - Egyptian Predynastic Period
		Its distinct form, color, and decoration places the jar in the culture phase called Naqada III, during the late or terminal Predynastic Period of the Chalcolithic Period, circa 3200 BC It is one type among the many varieties of pottery produced by the Naqadan culture.
		By the time this jar was being produced, Egypt had developed from a land of small hunting-gathering communities, connected to each other by family and social relationships, to an agricultural society of settled villages.
		The vessels were believed to magically hold food and drink essential in maintaining an uninterrupted life of the body necessary to eternal life after death.
	mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /permex/egypt/egp-text.htm (518 words)

	Egypt: History - Predynastic Period
		In a transition period of a thousand years (about which little is still known), nearly all the archetypal characteristics appeared, and beginning in 5500 BC we find evidence of organized, permanent settlements focused around agriculture.
		Somewhere around 4500 BC is the start of the "Old" Predynastic, also known as the Amratian period, or simply as Naqada I, as most of the sites from this period date to around the same time as the occupation of the Naqada site.
		Previously it was believed that the transition between Predynastic and Dynastic was the result of a brutal series of revolutions and warfare brought about as a result of the discovery of metallurgy and the new social structures such as cities, individual dwellings, and writing.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/GeogHist/histories/Oldcivilization/Egyptology/EgyptHisory/ebph5.htm (1819 words)

	Ancient Egyptian Religion: Predynastic - Early Dynastic Period
		But all the way back in Archaic and Predynastic times, when the cult place was a simple reed hut, the places were in essence the Home of the God and thus a place where only Pharaoh as the Son of God and those he appointed as his deputies, could meet with the god.
		The shrine where the cult statue was kept is thought to have been a light wooden structure made of wood or wickerwork, standing at the rear of an open courtyard around which a fence ran, drawing the line between the sacred and the profane.
		In the earliest Archaic periods there are evidence that points at a certain barbarism - women and servants were buried with the king to follow him into the Hereafter.
	www.philae.nu /akhet/history1.html (1311 words)

	Egypt Site Map
		The Osirian Temple of Taharqa at Karnak in Egypt
		The Tomb of Mehu at Saqqara in Egypt
		Osiris Hek-Djet, Temple of at Karnak in Luxor, Egypt
	touregypt.net /sitemap.htm (3679 words)

	Virtual-Egypt - The Egyptian People's Papyrus
		The Old Kingdom collapses, and a period of social upheaval and political chaos follows.
		The Hyksos invade Egypt and form two dynasties (15 and 16) of foreign kings.
		Egypt's power and wealth are at their zenith; diplomacy replaces warfare.
	www.virtual-egypt.com /newhtml/tableofevents.html (1257 words)

	AllRefer.com - Egypt - Ancient Egypt - The Predynastic Period and the First and Second Dynasties, 6000-2686 B.C. \| ...
		During this period, when people first began to settle along the banks of the Nile (Nahr an Nil) and to evolve from hunters and gatherers to settled, subsistence agriculturalists, Egypt developed the written language, religion, and institutions that made it the world's first organized society.
		Through pharaonic (see Glossary) Egypt, Africa claims to be the cradle of one of the earliest and most spectacular civilizations of antiquity (see fig.
		Long-distance trade within Egypt, a high degree of craft specialization, and sustained contacts with southwest Asia encouraged the development of towns and a hierarchical structure with power residing in a headman who was believed to be able to control the Nile flood.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/egypt/egypt13.html (1080 words)

	Egypt: Upper Egyptian Neolithic and Predynastic Religion and Rulers, A Feature Tour Egypt Story
		In the middle of the fourth millennium BC, the Naqada II period superceded the Naqada I. They had mastered the art of agriculture and the use of artificial irrigation, and no longer needed to hunt for their food.
		By the Naqada III period, Buto's pottery was 99% from Upper Egypt, and so was thought to have been "Naqada-ised" by that time.
		The religion of Neolithic and predynastic Egypt appears to have been animistic nature worship, with each village or town with its own spirit in the form of an animal, bird, reptile, tree, plant or object.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/predynastic.htm (2070 words)

	Predynastic Egypt
		Because it was difficult to attribuate to the Predynastic cultures precise dates, the whole Naqada period has been devided by the archeologist Flinders Petrie in sequences numbered 30-80 (1-29 were left for older cultures that may be discovered after this system was established), based on the pottery he had recovered from some 900 graves.
		Predynastic Lower Egypt is divided in Neolithic (5300-4000) and Maadi Cultural Complex (4000-3200).
		During this period of evolution the valley was becoming dryer, either because of the action of man or the decrease of rainfalls (or both), while the population grew, leading to an intensification of the use of ground available.
	www.asian-center.net /ancienthistory/ch3.html (2601 words)

	Ancient Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ancient Egypt was a long-lived ancient civilization in north-eastern Africa.
		It was concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River reaching its greatest extension during the second millennium BCE, which is referred to as the New Kingdom period.
		It began with the incipient unification of Nile Valley polities around 3500 BCE and is conventionally thought to have ended in 51 BCE when the early Roman Empire conquered and absorbed Ptolemaic Egypt as a province.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Ancient_Egypt (4407 words)

	Predynastic Egypt
		The late Neolithic period in Egypt is referred to as the 'Predynastic Period'.
		An absolute chronology of this period has been difficult because of the variance of the types of remains between those found in Upper Egypt and those found in Lower Egypt.
		Excavations in Upper Egypt consist mainly of cemetaries, whereas in Lower Egypt the primary remains are those of settlements.
	showcase.netins.net /web/ankh/predynastic.html (626 words)

	Egypt: History - Predynastic Period
		Beginning just before the Predynastic period, Egyptian culture was already beginning to resemble greatly the Pharaonic ages that would soon come after, and rapidly at that.
		In a transition period of a thousand years (about which little is still known), nearly all the archetypal characteristics appeared, and beginning in 5500 BC we find evidence of organized, permanent settlements focused around agriculture.
		The third stage of the Predynastic period is dated to around 4000 BC and is labeled the Gerzean period or Naqada II.
	interoz.com /egypt/ebph5.htm (1802 words)

	Detroit Institute of Arts : Permanent Collection - Ancient Art - Egypt
		In the Predynastic period before 3,000 B.C. and the beginning of the Pharonic Age, the body was placed in a grave in the sand with some simple offerings.
		In the religion of ancient Egypt deities were associated with various aspects of nature and the cosmos, particular geographical localities, or even episodes in human experience such as birth and death.
		The faces of people represented in the mummy portraits reflect the mixed population of Egypt in the Greco-Roman age when Greek was the language of the ruling class and the country was a part of the Roman Empire.
	www.dia.org /collections/ancient/egypt/egypt.html (881 words)

	Egypt : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
		The Predynastic Period and the First and Second Dynasties, 6000-2686 B.C. The Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and Second Intermediate Period, 2686 to 1552 B.C. Pyramid Building in the Old and Middle Kingdoms
		The Late Period, 664-323 B.C. Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt, 332 B.C.-A.D. The Alexandrian Conquest
		Egypt under the Protectorate and the 1919 Revolution
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/egtoc.html (255 words)

	Prehistoric and Predynastic Periods (pre-3100 B.C.) - Theban Mapping Project
		For the Predynastic Period, the chronological/material culture divisions Badarian, Amratian, and Gerzean have been replaced and redefined as Naqada I, II, and III.
		These cultures developed in Upper Egypt and were roughly contemporary with but materially different from Neolithic cultures located in the Nile Delta and typified by such type-sites as Ma'adi and Marimdah, as well as in the Fayyum and at al Omari.
		Pit graves were common throughout the Nile Valley, particularly in Upper Egypt (sites excavated in Lower Egypt are predominantly settlement sites), but gradually came to be replaced by more regular, rectangular chambers cut into bedrock and covered with small mounds of debris and, later, of mud-brick.
	www.thebanmappingproject.com /resources/timeline.html (348 words)

	Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This last event did not represent the first period of foreign domination; however the Roman period was to witness a marked, if gradual transformation in the political and religious life of the Nile Valley, effectively marking the termination of independent civilizational development.
		Motivating and organising these activities were a socio-political and economic elite that achieved social consensus by means of an elaborate system of religious belief under the figure of a semi-divine ruler (usually male) from a succession of ruling dynasties, and related to the larger world by means of polytheistic beliefs.
		The Egyptian religion, embodied in Egyptian mythology, is a succession of beliefs held by the people of Egypt, as early as predynastic times and all the way until the coming of Christianity and Islam in the Græco-Roman and Arab eras.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Ancient_Egypt.htm (3596 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.
	timelines.ws /countries/EGYPT.HTML (14315 words)

	Middle Predynastic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Middle Predynastic Period in Egypt dates to 4000 B.C.E. This time period is also referred to as the Gerzean Period or the Naqada Period.
		It is most recognized by the growing influence of the peoples of the north over those of the South, a prelude to what is to come in the late pre-dynastic period.
		Animals such as ostriches and ibexes were found on their pottery, this lead some to speculate that the Gerzean were hunting in the sub-desert, because these animals are not found in the Nile Valley.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/history/dynasties/middle.html (402 words)

	The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom) - Ancient Egypt
		Ancient Egypt was a long-lived ancient civilization geographically located in north-eastern Africa.
		Climate changes and/or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, eventually forming the Sahara (c.2500 BC), and early tribes naturally migrated to the Nile River where they developed a settled agricultural economy and more centralized society (see Nile: History).
		The Egyptian religions, embodied in Egyptian mythology, were a succession of beliefs held by the people of Egypt, as early as predynastic times and all the way until the coming of Christianity and Islam in the Graeco-Roman era.
	www.book-of-thoth.com /thebook/index.php/Ancient_Egypt (3657 words)

	Egyptian Cultural Time Table, from the Late Stoneage till 3000 BCE
		The magical adoration of the Earth mother, matriarchy, lack of personal possession of the soil and relative absence of strife is at least partially replaced by the worship of male gods, accompanied by the production of metal tools and weapons and the securing of the supply of the raw material and technical-rationalistic thinking.
		Make-up palette of slate with a depiction of King Narmer (Menes?) as a warrior and victor and of fabulous animals - interpreted as documenting the unification of the Upper and Lower Egypt.
		Worship of many local gods, mostly depicted as having a human body and an animal head, who are replaced by universal gods: Atem who created Shu (Air) and his twin sister Tefnut (Moisture) by self fertilisation.
	www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt/timelines/culture1.htm (511 words)

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