Overviews
Pharonic and Late Period
Excellent site, covers history of the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms, and Late Period, with
summary. Links, references.
Prehistoric, Predynastic and Early Dynastic
Lower
Paleolithic-2 Million through 100,000 B.C.
Good overview.
Paleolithic-100,000
through 30,000 B.C.
Good overview, discusses artifacts found in period.
Upper
Paleolithic: 30,000 through 10,000 B.C.
Good overview, raises some interesting questions.
Epipaleolithic:
10,000 through c. 5,000 B.C.
Good discussion of time when Egypt was gaining the skills which later enabled it to become a kingdom.
Predynastic:
5,000-3,100 B.C.
Good overview of period when culture was developing, Egypt was unified.
Late
Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt
Francesco Raffaele's extensive site with detailed history and archaeology of the period.
Also four corpora,
!st Dynasty Wooden and Ivory Labels, Early Dynastic Inscriptions of Stone Vessels, Naqada IIIb 1-1 sereks, and Late
Predynastic Decorated Palettes. Pictures, articles, news, image galleries. Excellent. Frequent updates.
Prehistoric
and Predynastic Egypt
Very complete and well researched site useful for research, many links, covers excavations, geology, environment,
field work, sources of raw materials....a wealth of data. Updated.
Predyanastic
Faiyum, S. Cairo, and Western Delta
Excellent, updated site. with archaeology, geology, conclusions, appendices, bibliography, and
many good links.
Neolithic Faiyum
Extremely thorough site, execellent discussion, data, some photos.
Covers Archaeology, Geology, Conclusions, appendices, Bibliography, and good links.
Early
Dynastic
Numerous links, overview of period, some photos.
First Dynasty
Overview, kings
list, links.
Second
Dynasty
Good overview, some photos, kings list and dates, links.
Second Dynasty
Nice overview
of the end of the early dynastic period.
Old
Kingdom
Old Kingdom
History of the Old Kingdom, with good links embedded.
Third Dynasty
Good
overview, some photos, good embedded links, kings list.
Old Kingdom
Wikipedia overview
of 1st-8th Dynasties, with good links.
Old Kingdom Dynasties 3-8
Very nice site, has chart
with kings and length of reigns according to Swelim and Manetho, descriptions of reigns, cartouches, diagrams of tombs, photos
and more.
Third Dynasty
Good text history of the beginnings of the Old
Kingdom.
Fourth Dynasty
Discusses
end of the Third Dynasty and the Fourth Dynasty.
Fifth
Dynasty
Discusses the changes which occurred in the Fifth Dynasty and its' history.
Sixth
Dynasty
Extensive discussion of life and history of the Sixth Dynasty.
1st
Intermediate Period
First Intermediate Period (period from Dynasties 6 to 12)
Very extensive text discussion of this period, the
rulers, the civil wars and anarchy, and the changing political climate.
Middle
Kingdom
Eleventh Dynasty
Good discussion of what is known about the 11th Dynasty and its' political situation.
Twelfth
Dynasty
Quite extensive discussion and history of the 12th Dynasty with some accounts of Petrie's work.
Second Intermediate Period
Second Intermediate Period (Thirteenth through Seventeenth Dynasties)
Quite extensive discussion
of this period with references to a number of ancient sources. Good.
New Kingdom
Eighteenth Dynasty History
Extensive text review of history of the 18th Dynasty.
Nineteeth
Dynasty History
Extensive text review of history of 19th Dynasty
Twentieth
Dynasty History
Extensive test review of history of 20th Dynasty.
Third Intermediate Period
Twenty-first Dynasty
Extensive text review of history of 21st Dynasty.
Twenty-second
Dynasty
Extensive text review of history of 22nd Dynasty.
Twenty-third
Dynasty
Necessarily brief history of the 23rd Dynasty.
Twenty-fourth
Dynasty
Extensive text review of 24th Dynasty.
Twenty-fifth
Dynasty
Extensive text review of the 25th Dynasty.
Late Period
Twenty-sixth Dynasty
Extensive text history.
Twenty-seventh
Dynasty
Extensive text history.
Twenty-eighth
Dynasty
Necessarily brief text history.
Twenty-ninth
Dynasty
Extensive text history.
Thirtieth
Dynasty
Good text history.
Thirty-first
Dynasty
Good text history.
Graeco-Roman
Period
Excellent site covering Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt, with sites. Good references.
Ptolemaic Dynasty
Good text history.