After conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 BC the sole aim of Egypt’s foreign policy was to defend her independence against an empire which persisted in regarding her simply as a…
Category: King of Egypt
Abbasid Period
The first and second Muslim civil wars appear to have made little difference in Cairo’s life, though the governors of Egypt now received their orders from Damascus instead of Medina. It also…
Thirty-first Dynasty
By Ochus’s strategical skill and politcal sagacity Egypt was a Persian province once more. Diodorus (xvi. 51) may here be quoted: Artaxerxes, after taking over all Egypt and demolishing the walls of…
Twentieth Dynasty
Manetho has no more to tell us about Dyn. XX than that it consisted of twelve kings of Diospolis (Thebes), who reigned according to Africanus for 135 years and for 178 according…
Predynastic (5,500 – 3,100 BC)
Beginning just before the Predynastic period, Egyptian culture was already beginning to resemble greatly the Pharaonic ages that would soon come after, and rapidly at that. In a transition period of a…
Eleventh Dynasty
Nothing very definite is known about the campaigns in which Menthotpe I regained the Double Crown, and so put an end to the internal anarchy which had finally given place to separate…
Predynastic Period
Scholars designate the Predynastic Period in Egypt as a time when Egyptian culture was beginning to resemble what would later become Dynastic Egypt, but Egypt itself was not yet unified. However, scholars…
Nefertiti always and forever
Has the mummy of the beautiful Ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, really been identified? Nevine El-Aref investigates For the second time in a week, the 18th-dynasty queen, Nefertiti,…