ChronologyA brief chronological summary of reigns and events in ancient Egyptian history relevant to the reader of this novel. The dates are drawn in main from John Baines and Jaromir Málek, Atlas of Ancient Egypt (Phaidon, Oxford, 1980).
Outside Egypt between 3000BC and 2000BC the ancient Maltese temples were built, as were Stonehenge, West Kennet Long Barrow, Silbury Hill and Avebury in Britain. The Cycladic and Minoan civilizations flourished in Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean islands. Mohenjo-Daro in India and Sumer in the Middle East reached their peak.
In Egypt before 3000BC, historians speak of the ‘Pre-dynastic Period’.
Following are details of the Early Dynastic Period, the Old Kingdom, the First Intermediate Period, the Middle Kingdom, the Second Intermediate Period, and T
