1. The Archaic Period and Old Kingdom
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The Archaic Period and Old Kingdom

2. Scenes from Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn)
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Scenes from Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn)

3. Ivory label from Den’s tomb in Abydos (1st Dyn); British Museum
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Den braining an enemy; the inscription reads, "The first occasion of smiting the East“
Ivory label from Den’s tomb in Abydos (1st Dyn); British Museum

5. Early dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qa'ab
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Early dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qa'ab
Subsidiary burials of the Tomb of Aha
Tomb of Den
Boat burials near the funerary enclosure of Khasekhemwy (2d Dyn)

6. Palace façade, Djoser pyramid complex (2d Dyn)
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Palace façade, Djoser pyramid complex (2d Dyn)

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Map of Saqqara
Tomb 3357

8. Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex (3d Dyn)
Detail of double throne platform

9. Two of Snofru’s pyramids: the Meidum Pyramid and the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur (4th Dyn)

10. The pyramids of Giza: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure (4th Dyn)
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The pyramids of Giza: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure (4th Dyn)

11. The Khufu ship, 43.6 m long, one of the boat pits (4th Dyn), and a model by ClaireRichardson
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12. The Sphinx and the Pyramid of Khafre

13. George Reisner’s excavation of Menkaure’s Valley Temple, February 9, 1910

14. Reisner’s plan of the valley temple
Reisner’s plan of the valley temple
Menkaura and his queen (Kamerernebty II?), 142 cm high (4th Dyn), Museum of Fine Arts

15. Abu Gurab: Nyuserre's sun temple, ruins and reconstructed view
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Abu Gurab: Nyuserre's sun temple, ruins and reconstructed view

17. Scenes from Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn)
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Scenes from Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn)

18. Tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn)
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Tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn)

19. Palaeolithic 700,000-7000 BCE Saharan Neolithic 8800-4700
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Late
Predynastic
Lower Egypt
Neolithic
Maadi
Upper Egypt
Badarian
Naqada I (Amratian)
Naqada II (Gerzean)
Naqada III (Dynasty 0)
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1ST Persian Period (27th-30th)
2d Persian Period
Ptolemaic Period
Macedonian
Ptolemaic
Roman 30 BCE-642 CE