History of Egypt (Many Wonderful Things)

The history of Egypt is one of the longest and richest histories in the world, starting with the dawn of its civilization shortly after the Noachine Flood and Tower of Tongues. Its history has mostly remained continuous, in the sense that it is more often taken as a single unit than divided or conquered by larger empires. In that way its very comparable to Chinese history, although it is much older.

Establishing an exact chronology for the events in Egyptian history can be daunting, due to the sheer scale of information involved as well as the expanse of time periods. The entire field of aegyptography was established since the late Middle Ages for that express purpose, and the original information for that has been handed down to modern historians.

The historical eras of Egypt can be divided as:
 * Ancient Egypt (2300-525 BC)
 * Old Kingdom (2300-1900 BC)
 * Middle Kingdom (1900-1550 BC)
 * New Kingdom (1550-975 BC)
 * Late Kingdom (975-525 BC)
 * Classical Egypt (525 BC - 642 AD)
 * Achamenid Empire (525-331 BC)
 * Hellanistc/Ptolemaic Dynasty (331-30 BC)
 * Roman Empire (30 BC - 364 AD)
 * Byzantine Egypt (364 - 642 AD)
 * Medieval Egypt (642 AD-1797)
 * Muslim Calipahte (642-969 AD)
 * Fatimid Caliphate (969 AD-1171)
 * Ayyubid Sultanate (1171-1252)
 * Mamluk Sultanates (1252-1517)
 * Ottoman Empire (1517-1797)
 * Modern Egypt (1797-Present)
 * French Occupation (1797-1805)
 * Muhammad Ali Dynasty (1805-1952)
 * Republic of Egypt (1805-1952)