The following is a chronological time line for Egypt starting in 5,000
BCE.
This is taken from the website:
www.phoenix-alliance.com/html/timeline.html
There is a margin of era for this Dynastic Chronology (taken from
John Baines/ Ralph Krauss, Sothis- und Monddaten: Studien zurastronmischen
und technischen Chronologie Altagyptens, Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1985,
and Cat Symbology in Ancient Eygpt)
Links to various temples are for reference. It does not always mean
that the temples were built completely at the time where it is listed.
Rather, influential rulers of the time period had something to do with
some part or addition to the temple.
Predynastic Period (c) 5,000 - 3,000
Dynasty 0 (c) 3,000 - 2,950: Narmer
Early Dynastic Period (1st & 2nd Dynasties)
1st Dynasty
2,950 - 2,800: Menes (?), Aha
The Old Kingdom (3rd - 8th Dynasties)
3rd Dynasty : Saqqara Step Pyramid
2,675 - 2,600: Djoser
4th Dynasty: Pyramids of Giza
Khufu: 2,549 - 2,536
Khafre: 2,518 - 2,493
Menkaura: 2,488 - 2,460
5th Dynasty
Sahura: 2,447 - 2,435
Nyuserra: 2,408 - 2,377
6th Dynasty
Teti: 2,311 - 2,281
Pepy I: 2,281 - 2,243
Pepy II: 2,243 - 2,143
7th Dynasty
2,140 - 2,134
8th Dynasty
First Intermediate Period (9th - (mid)11th Dynasties
9th Dynasty
Heracleopolitan: 2,123 - 2,040
10th Dynasty
Akhtoy, Merikare: 2,090 - 1,970
11th Dynasty
1st Part, Theban: 2,123 -2,040
Mentuhotep (before re-unification of Egypt): 2,050 - 2,040
Middle Kingdom ( (mid)11th - 13th Dynasties)
11th Dynasty
2nd Part, Theban: 2,040 - 1,980
Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (II) (after re-unification): 2,040 - 1,999
12th Dynasty
Amenemhat I: 1,980 - 1,801
Senusret I: 1,960 - 1,916
Amenemhat II: 1,918 - 1,884
Senusret II: 1,886 - 1,878
Senusret III: 1,878 - 1,859
Amenemhat III: 1,859 - 1,814
Amenemhat IV: 1,814 - 1,805
Sobekneferu (Queen): 1,805 - 1,801
13th Dynasty
1,801 - 1,648
Second Intermediate Period (14th - 17th Dynasties)
14th - 15th Dynasties : The Hyksos Period
1,648 - 1,540
16th Dynasty : The Lesser Hyksos
17th Dynasty
Intef V, Seqenenara Taa II: 1,648 - 1,550
New Kingdom (18th - 20th Dynasties)
Queen Hapshepsut's Temple
Luxor Temple
Valley of Kings
18th Dynasty
Ahmose I: 1,540 - 1,525
Amenhotep I: 1,525 - 1,504
Thutmose I: 1, 504 - 1,492
Thutmose II: 1492-1479
Hatshepsut (Queen): 1479-1457
Thutmose III: 1,479 - 1,425
Amenhotep II: 1,427 -1,401
Thutmose IV: 1,401 - 1,391
Amenhotep III: 1391-1353
Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) : 1353-1337
Smenkhkare: 1,338 - 1,336
Tutankhamen: 1,336 - 1,327
Ay: 1,327 - 1,323
Horemheb: 1,323 - 1,295
Ramesside Period (19th - 20th Dynasties)
Temple at Karnak
19th Dynasty
Ramses I: 1,295 - 1,294
Sety I: 1,294 - 1,279
Ramses II: 1,279 - 1,213
Merenpath: 1,213 - 1,203
Amenmesu: 1,203 - 1,200
Sety II: 1,200 - 1,194
Saptek: 1, 194 - 1,188
Tausret (Queen): 1,186 - 1,186
20th Dynasty
Ramses III: 1,184 - 1,153
Ramses IV: 1,153 - 1,147
Ramses IX: 1,126 - 1,108 ??
Third Intermediate Period (21st - 25th Dynasties)
21st Dynasty
1,069 - 945
22nd Dynasty
Osorkon I: 924 - 889
Osorkon II: 874 - 850
Pamiu: 773 - 767
23rd Dynasty
818 - 715
24th Dynasty
727 - 715
25th Dynasty
Piye: 750 -718 (????)
The Late Period (25th - 30th Dynasties)
(and the second Persian Period)
25th Dynasty : Nubian Dynasty
Shabako: 716 - 702
26th (Saite) Dynasty
Psamtek I: 664 - 610
Nekau: 610 - 595
Psamtek II: 595 - 570
Apries: 589 - 570
Ahmose: 570 - 526
Psamtek: 526 - 525
27th (Persian) Dynasty
525 - 404
Cambyses: 525 - 522
28th Dynasty
404 - 399
29th Dynasty
399 - 380
30th Dynasty
380 - 343
Nectanebo II: 360 - 342
The Second Persion Period
342 - 332
Greco-Roman Period
Macedonian Dynasty: 332 - 305
Alexander the Great conquers Egypt : 332
Ptolemaic Dynasty
305 - 30
Egypt as a Roman Province
30 B.C.E - 395 A.D
Byzantine Egypt
395 A.D - 642
Islamic Period
Arabs led by Amir ibn al-As conquers Egypt
639 - 642 A.D
