Ancient Egypt Prehistoric Egypt. Badarian pottery, figurine of hippopotamus ivory (British Museum)...

Ancient EgyptPrehistoric Egypt

Badarian pottery, figurine of hippopotamus ivory (British Museum)

Naqada I Naqada II

Man harpooning a hippopotamus, Amratian, ~3800 (Metropolitan Museum)

Elephant palette, Amratian-Early Gerzean (Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels,

Naqada I Naqada II

Gerzean ripple flaked knife (22 cm long)

The boat mural from Tomb 100 at Hierakonpolis, Gerzean.

Boat under sail, Gerzean (British Museum)

Naqada III tomb - Minshatat Abu Omar (Eastern Delta) ~3300

Naqada I Naqada IISerekh of King Djet (1st Dyn) with the Horus falcon above (Louvre)

Palaeolithic 700,000-7000 BCE

Saharan Neolithic 8800-4700Early 8800-6800Middle 6600-5100Late 5100-4700

Predynastic 5300-3000 Lower Egypt

Neolithic 5300-4000Maadi 4000-3200

Upper EgyptBadarian 4400-4000Naqada I 4000-3500 (Amratian)Naqada II 3500-3200 (Gerzean)Naqada III 3200-3000 (Dynasty 0)

1ST Persian Period (27th-30th) 525-4042d Persian Period 343-332Ptolemaic Period 332-30

Macedonian332-310Ptolemaic 305-30

Roman 30 BCE-642 CE