Foreign Contacts Of Ancient Egypt
The following is a chronicle of predynastic and ancient Egyptian foreign contacts up through 343 BC.
Read more about Foreign Contacts Of Ancient Egypt: Prehistoric Nabta Playa (c. 7500 BC), Predynastic Badari (c. 4500-4000 BC), Predynastic Naqada, Gerzeh and Maadi (c. 4400-3100 BC), Early Dynastic (c. 3100-2575 BC), Old Kingdom (before C. 2134 BC), Middle Kingdom (before C. 1648 BC), New Kingdom (before C. 1070 BC), Late Period (before C. 343 BC)
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