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SUCCESSION OF DYNASTIES

 

ARCHAIC PERIOD, 3100-2650

NEW KINGDOM, 1550-1070

First Dynasty

Eighteenth Dynasty

Narmer

Amosis

Aha

Amenhotep

Djer

Tuthmosis

Djet

Tuthmosis II

Den

Hatshepsut

Adjin

Tuthmosis III

Semerkhe

Amenhotep II

Qaa

Tuthmosis IV

Second Dynasty

Amenhotep III

Hotepsekhemwy

Akhenaten

Raneb

Tutankhamun

Ninet jer

Ay

Peribsen

Horemheb

Khasekhem

Nineteenth Dynasty

OLD KINGDOM

Ramesses I

Third Dynasty

Seti I

Sanakht

Ramesses II

Netcherikhe-Djoser

Merenptah

Sekhemkhe

Seti II

Khaba

Amenmesses

Huni

Siptah

Fourth Dynasty

Tawosre

Snofru

Twentieth Dynasty

Cheops

Setnakht

Radjedef

Ramesses III-XI

Chephren

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 1070-712

Mycerinus

Twenty-first Dynasty

Shepsekaf

Smendes

Fifth Dynasty

Psusennes I

Userkaf

Amenemope

Sahure

Osorkon I

Neferirkare

Siamun

Shepsekare

Twenty-second Dynasty

Raneferef

Sheshonk I

Niuserre

Osorkon III

Menkauhor

Sheshonok III, IV, V

Isesi

Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Dynasties

Unas

Composed of ephemeral kings of whom little is known.

Sixth Dynasty

LATE PERIOD, 712-332

Teti

Twenty-fifth Dynasty

Merenre

Shabaka

Pepi II

Shebitku

FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 2134-2040

Tantamani

Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Dynasties

Twenty-sixth Dynasty

Short ruling periods by ephemeral kings, which often overlapped

Necho I

MIDDLE KINGDOM, 2040-1640

Psammetichus I

Eleventh Dynasty

Necho II

Mentuhotep

Apries

Mentuhotep III

Amasis

Mentuhotep IV

Psammetichus III

Twelfth Dynasty

Twenty-seventh Dynasty

Amenemhet I

Cambyses

Sesostris I

Darius I

Amenemhet II

Xerxes I

Sesostris II

Artaxerxes

Sesostris III

Darius II

Amenemhet III

Twenty-eighth Dynasty

Amenemhet IV

Only one king is known from this dynasty

Thirteenth Dynasty

Twenty-ninth Dynasty

Wegef I

Neferites

Amenemhet V

Psammutis

Sobekhotep I

Neferites II

Hor

Thirtieth Dynasty

Amenemhet VI

Nectanebo I, II

Sobekhotep II, III, IV, V

GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD, 332-AD 395

This dynasty collapsed after centralized power was lost by short-lived and little-important kings

Thirty-first Dynasty

SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 1640-1550

Alexander the Great

Fourteenth Dynasty

Philip Arrhidaeus

Dynasty formed of little-known kings contemporary with the Thirteenth Dynasty

Alexander IV

Fifteenth and Sixteenth Dynasties

Thirty-second Dynasty

Hyksos kings

Ptolemy I-XV, with Queens Cleopatra I-VII

Seventeenth Dynasty

After the last of the Cleopatras Egypt came under direct

Intef V

Roman rule. After the Roman empire divided in AD 395,

Seqenenre

Egypt was controlled by the Byzantine empire until the

 

Arab conquest AD 641.

 

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