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History of Egypt
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Egyptian history can be roughly divided into the following periods:

• Prehistoric Egypt

• Ancient Egypt
  • Early Dynastic Period of Egypt: 31st to 27th centuries BC
  • Old Kingdom of Egypt: 27th to 22nd centuries BC
  • First Intermediate Period: 22nd to 21st centuries BC
  • Middle Kingdom of Egypt: 21st to 17th centuries BC
  • Second Intermediate Period: ca. 1640 to 1570 BC
  • New Kingdom of Egypt: 1570 to 1070 BC
  • Third Intermediate Period and 1070 to 664 BC
  • Late Period of ancient Egypt
    • Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt: 664 to 525 BC
    • Achaemenid Egypt: 525 to 332 BC

• Greco-Roman Egypt
  • Ptolemaic Egypt: 332 to 30 BC
  • Roman Egypt: 30 BC to AD 395
  • Byzantine Egypt: 395 to 645

• Islamic Egypt
  • Arab Egypt: 639 to 1250
  • Mamluk Egypt: 1250 to 1517
  • Ottoman Egypt: 1517 to 1805

• Modern Egypt
  • Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty: 1805 to 1882
  • Modern Egypt: since 1882

[edit] See also

• Aegyptus
• Egyptians
• History of Africa
• History of the Middle East
• Coptic history

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