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  The Third Intermediate Period: 1070-712 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
   After the collapse of the Nineteenth Dynasty, the so-called Ramesside kings, Egypt descended into another period of political chaos.
This chaos literally began during the kingship of the last Ramesside king, Ramsses XI.
These Libyan chiefs made up the Twenty-second Dynasty and ruled Egypt at the same time as the kings of the Twenty-third Dynasty.
www.wsu.edu /~dee/EGYPT/3RD.HTM   (86 words)

  
 The Ancient Egypt Site: 1st Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although from the reign of the Horus Den on, they often took the kings' Nebti-names as their Prenomen, the relationship between the names in the Kinglists and those mentioned on the archaeological sources is not always clear.
The next clue to the identification of Menes and a confirmation of the chronology of the 1st Dynasty is provided by two seals found in 1985 and 1995 at the royal cemetery at Umm el-Qa'ab.
The second seal is dated to the reign of Qa'a, the last king of the 1st Dynasty.
www.ancient-egypt.org /history/01_03/01.html   (2161 words)

  
 Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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)

  
 Egyptian History: Dynasties 21 to 31, the Late Period   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Egypt regained its independence in 656 BCE under Psammetic I (656-609 BCE) of Libyan origin, founder of the 26th dynasty.
Many of the best soldiers of Egypt's army deserted to the Ethiopian king at Meroe, and Ahmose was forced to use Libyan and Greek mercenaries against foreign invaders.
The Persians ruled Egypt as a satrapy from 525 to 404 BCE, and again from 341 to 333 BCE (31st Dynasty).
nefertiti.iwebland.com /history21-31.htm   (1551 words)

  
 Egypt: History - Dynasty XXII (Twenty-second Dynasty)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Bubastite Portal, as it is generally called, was squeezed in between the Second Pylon and a small temple of Ramesses III standing in the way of a huge first court which Shoshenk undoubtedly planned front he start, but which he did not live to accomplish.
In Middle Egypt, not far north of Oxyrhynchos, a fortress with a temple in which Shoshenk I and Osorkon I had a hand seems to have served as a sort of boundary or barrier between north and south.
Towards the end of the dynasty the Serapeum material begins to be of real assistance, the inscriptions mentioning the dates of birth and death of several Apis bulls, together with the length of their lives.
interoz.com /egypt/hdyn22.htm   (3684 words)

  
 Egyptian New Kingdom, Babylonia, Assyria, Hittites, etc.
By the next dynasty the royal rombs of the whole period had been stripped of their treasures, and all the priests could do was fix up and rebury the bodies in two caches, one of which was actually the tomb of Amenhotep II.
The XXI Dynasty is a weaker version of the XX Dynasty, whose most conspicuous feature is the virtual independence of the High Priests of Amon at Thebes, a phenomenon that began with Hrihor during the reign of Ramesses XI.
The XXIII and XXIV Dynasties, with other rulers of uncounted Dynasties, were rival Libyan lines, in addition to areas controlled by those who the Egyptians called "chieftans of Ma." The XXIV Dynasty at Sais, however, may actually represent the ancestors of the later XXVI Dynasty.
www.friesian.com /notes/newking.htm   (7966 words)

  
 Timeline Egypt
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.
An inscription describing this war was engraved on the second pylon of the temple of Medinet Habu.
timelines.ws /countries/EGYPT.HTML   (14315 words)

  
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Reisner believed that during the rule of the Twenty-second (Libyan) Dynasty in Egypt (945-730 B.C.) Nubia remained a province of that land ruled by one of the king's sons.
In that case, Kashta's occupation of Upper Egypt and his action in forcing the Divine Adoratress Shepenwepet, the daughter of Osorkon III to adopt his own daughter Amenirdis, would have to be seen as part of a struggle between rival Libyans for supremacy in Egypt - an unconvincing theory.
In such circumstances Egypt was evidently too weak to command respect abroad, and the conversations of Wenamun with the princes whom he met afford a revelation of the contemporary world unequaled in the entire literature of the Nearer East.
www.kent.net /DisplacedDynasties/20th-25th_Dynasty_Transition.html   (6394 words)

  
 Egypt: History - Dynasty XVIII (Eighteenth Dynasty)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Theban saviors of Egypt were a closely knit family in which the women, whether on account of personal attractions or because they were the recognized transmitters of sovereignty, played an extraordinarily prominent part.
In an unspecified year of his reign Amosis conferred upon her, or sold to her, the office of Second Prophet of Amun at Karnak, to be hers and her descendants' to all eternity.
Thebes was paramount among the cities of Egypt, and Amen-Re', the principal deity at Karnak, at last vindicated his right to the title 'King of the Gods' which he had borne for so long.
interoz.com /egypt/hdyn18a.htm   (3829 words)

  
 Egypt: Sekhemib/Seth-Peribsen of Egypt's 2nd (second) Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Were Hitler and his gang to have won the second World War, there would not be a question of whether history would justify his atrocities, but rather simply how they would have been justified, and how the actual winners such as Churchill and others would have been made to look evil.
Most of the 1st and early 2nd Dynasty kings are better attested to in the north of Egypt, while the later kings of the 2nd Dynasty are better known from the south.
First, during at least the early dynasties, Seth (as a god) was not seen to be nearly as sinister as in later times.
www.touregypt.net /featurestories/peribsen.htm   (975 words)

  
 Egypt: History - Dynasty II (Second Dynasty)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The right side of the design is occupied by the hieroglyph for 'year' accompanied by the words 'of fighting and smiting the northerners'.
An objection to regarding Kha'sekhem as a separate king intervening Kha'sekhemui and Djoser, the founder of Dyn.
III, is that a sealing found in Kha'sekhemui's tomb at Abydos names a queen Hepenma'e is named as 'mother of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt' on a sealing in the great tomb of Bed Khallaf near Abydos where Djoser's prominence even prompted the guess that he might be the owner.
www.touregypt.net /hdyn2.htm   (2781 words)

  
 Bastet - Cat Goddess
Her worship began around the year 3200 BCE during the second dynasty in northern Egypt and her city is Bubastis.
Indeed, the people of ancient Egypt turned to Bast for protection and for blessing, as she was a renowned and beloved goddess.
Though the cat-headed goddess Bast was revered and loved throughout Egypt from the earliest of times (her worship was formalized at the end of the First or beginning of the Second Dynasties), there were several cities sacred to her cult and which hosted several large, important and influential temples.
www.moggies.co.uk /bastet/bastet.html   (860 words)

  
 File: <egyptnam
The ancient Saharan language may have been the language in popular use during the first two dynasties and after that was probably maintained as a liturgical or secret language.
Names such as Rosetta, Pharaoh, Nile and Egypt may be relatively recent name creations, but they still yield their hidden meanings in the same manner the very earliest Pharaohs' names.
It appears that all personal names have two meanings, the publicly known one and the secret one, which meanings may not be the same or even closely so.
faculty.ucr.edu /~legneref/bronze/egyptnam.htm   (3465 words)

  
 The Ancient Hyksos Dynasty in Egypt
Ruling dynasty of the Second Intermediate Period in ancient Egypt of foreign origin or more specifically Western Asia.
They took control over the capital of Memphis in 1674 BC and founded the 15th Dynasty (1674-1567 BC) which ran parallel to the 16th Dynasty -- a dynasty of vassal chiefs under Hyksos control.
The conquerors were mainly Semites either from Canaan or from Syria -- the latter having been displaced from their homeland by the influx of the warring Anatolians from Asia Minor.
ancientneareast.tripod.com /Hyksos.html   (253 words)

  
 Saqqara - Djoser's Step Pyramid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
his is the famous Step Pyramid built in the Third Dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom (about 2780 B.C. to 2680 B.C.) for King Djoser.
King Djoser, the founder of the Third Dynasty, was the son of Khasekhemwy, the last king of Egypt's Second Dynasty.
His real name was Neterykhet, but 1,000 years after he died, during Egypt's New Kingdom, he came to be known as Djoser, and we call him by that name today.
members.aol.com /egyptmouse/djoser1.html   (166 words)

  
 The 21st Dynasty of Egypt
Their time falls under the conditions existing when Agesilaus came to Egypt after being called by Tachos and who then withdrew his support from Tachos and shifted it to Nectanebo II whom he deemed to be better for his own causes.
The throne of Egypt was ceased by Nectanebo I, who claimed to be of the parentage of Nepherites, but who was a son of a military man and an officer himself.
But despite the changes in Egypt the Egyptian priesthood continued to enjoy the patronage of the kings; temples were built in Kom Ombo, in Esneh, and in other places that in architectural style did not look different from the temples of the 20th Dynasty.
www.specialtyinterests.net /dyn21b.html   (17595 words)

  
 The Ancient Egypt Site: The Second Dynasty Presence at Saqqara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A structure the tomb of Hotepsekhemwi was found to the east of it, thus slightly more away from the pyramid of Unas.
A cursory examination has brought to light some seals bearing the name of the 2nd Dynasty king Ninetjer, which has allowed us to identify this tomb as Ninetjer's.
When it was first entered by archaeologists, it was also found to contain thousands of mummies of the Late Dynastic Period and later.
www.ancient-egypt.org /saqqara/ninetjer   (105 words)

  
 OLD KINGDOM ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY (130   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Monday Sept 20 — Discussion of the problems inherant to the study of the epigraphic and archaeological material.
The examples that he discusses are specific to Ancient Egypt, however the discussion revolves around communication issues between different cultures.
Try to think of one example of miscommunication, misunderstanding that you have yourself experienced while interacting with people from a different culture than yours.
jhcourse.jhu.edu /~as130335   (1319 words)

  
 2637 BC Information - Articles Free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
2630 BC - 2611 BC - Reign of Djoser, Pharaoh of Egypt.
2630 - 2611 BC - Imhotep, Vizier of Egypt, constructs the Pyramid of Djoser
Djoser, first Pharaoh of the Third dynasty of Egypt.
www.articlesfree.com /index.php?title=2637_BC   (183 words)

  
 Ancient Egypt
The tomb of Senneferi at Luxor in Egypt
Ancient Egypt: The Second Dynasty - by Francesco Raffaele
Infrared satellite photograph of Egypt and the Nile River Valley
members.aol.com /TeacherNet/AncientEgypt.html   (1255 words)

  
 A timeline of the ancient Egyptians
1991 BC : Amenemhet I seizes power (12th dynasty), moves the capital to Ith-Tawy (Lisht), south of Memphis, builds a huge pyramid at Its-Tway and builds the "Wall of the Prince" in the Sinai to protect Egypt from invasions
1069 BC : the high priests of Amon usurp the title of king and split Egypt in two, the north with capital in Tanis (on the Mediterranean Sea) ruled by the 21st dynasty and the south with capital in Thebes ruled by the priests of Amon
699 BC : Nubian king Tirhakah/Taharqa (son of Piankh) ascends to the throne of Egypt and moves the capital to Memphis
www.scaruffi.com /politics/egyptian.html   (1717 words)

  
 Ra
Ra was a very powerful god starting as early as the second dynasty in Egypt.
By the fifth dynasty, he was the chief god of state.
He was believed to sail a course across the sky during the day.
historylink101.net /egypt_1/gods_ra.htm   (223 words)

  
 879_BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
879 BC - Death of Zhou yi wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
878 BC - Zhou li wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
874 BC - Osorkon II succeeds Takelot as king of the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=879_BC   (109 words)

  
 710s_BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
719 BC - Zhou Huan Wang of the Zhou Dynasty becomes ruler of China.
716 BC - Shabaka succeeds his father Piye as king of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt
715 BC - Osorkon IV dies, ending the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=710s_BC   (181 words)

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