The History of the Peoples of
the Eastern Desert
from Prehistory to the Present
from Prehistory to the Present
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| General chronology of
the lower and middle Nile region |
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| Southeast Egypt | Northeast Sudan | ||
| Lower
Palaeolithic 500,000 - 100,000 BCE |
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| Middle
Palaeolithic 100,000 - 35,000 BCE |
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| Upper
Palaeolithic 35,000 - 20,000 BCE |
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| Late Palaeolithic 20,000 - 8,000 BCE |
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| Epipalaeolitic
(Mesolithic) 8000 - 6000 BCE |
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| Early
Neolithic 6000 - 5000 BCE |
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| Prehistoric Egypt |
Fayum
- Badarian 5000-4200 BCE |
Khartoum
Neolithic 5000-3000 BCE |
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| Merimde
- Naqada 4200-3100 BCE |
A-Group 3800-3000 BCE |
Khartoum
Neolithic |
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| Predynastic
Egypt 3100-2575 BCE |
Lower
Nubia depopulated? |
Pre-Kerma
Culture 3000-2500 BCE |
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Pharaonic Egypt |
Old
Kingdom 2725-2125 BCE |
C-Group 2300-1520 BCE |
Kingdom
of Kerma 2500-1520 BCE |
| First
Intermediate Period 2125-1975 BCE |
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| Middle
Kingdom 1975-1640 BCE |
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| Second
Intermediate Period (Hyksos) 1630-1520 BCE |
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| New
Kingdom 1540-1075 BCE |
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| Third
Intermediate Period 1075-715 BCE |
Kingdom
of Napata (Kushite Kingdom) 1075-300 BCE |
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| 25th
Dynasty 770-657 BCE |
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| Late
Period (Persian invasions) 664-332 BCE |
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| Graeco-Roman Egypt |
Ptolemaic
Empire 332 BCE-30 CE |
Kingdom
of Meroe (Kushite Kingdom) 300 BCE-350 CE |
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| Roman
Empire 30-330 CE |
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| Byzantine Egypt |
Byzantine
Empire 330-616 CE |
Kingdom
of Nobatia (Ballana Culture) 300-700 CE |
Kingdom
of Makuria (protected by the baqt) 500-1323 CE |
| Persian
Invasion 616-628 CE |
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| Byzantine Empire 629-641 CE |
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| Islamic Egypt |
Rashidun
caliphs 641-658 CE |
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| Umayyad
Caliphate 658-750 CE |
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| Abbasid
Caliphate 750-969 CE |
Kingdom
of Makuria |
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| Fatimid
caliphs 969-1171 CE |
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| Ayyubid
Sultanate 1171-1250 CE |
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| Mamluk
sultans 1250-1517 CE |
Banu
Kanz (Awlad Kenz) 1323-1517 CE |
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| Ottoman Egypt |
Ottoman
Empire 1517-1798 CE |
Sultanate
of Sinnar (Funj) 1504-1821 CE |
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| Invasion
of Napoleon 1798-1801 CE |
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| Modern Egypt |
Khedives and kings of the Dynasty of
Mohamed Ali Mohamed Ali (1805-1848) - Fu'ad II (1952-1953) |
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| Increasingly
controlled by the British Empire |
Mahdi
Revolt 1883-1898 CE |
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| Unilateral
independence 22 February 1922 |
Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan 1899-1956 CE |
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| Republic
of Egypt 18 June 1953 |
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| Full
independence 18 June 1956 |
Republic
of Sudan 1 January 1956 |
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and J. Baines and J. Malek (2000), Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt, Abingdon (Andromeda Oxford Ltd.);
see also:
H. Barnard (2007), "Additional Remarks on Blemmyes, Beja and Eastern Desert Ware,"
Ägypten und Levante 17: 23-31.
1, Sharia Dr. Mahmoud Azmi
11211 Zamalek, Cairo
Arab Republic of Egypt
PO-Box 951510
Los Angeles, CA 90095
United States of America
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