Egypt History
The Battle of the Pyramids. The painting depicts the French invasion of Egypt under Napoléon Bonaparte, who won a decisive victory over the local Mamluks and wiped out almost the entire Ottoman army in Egypt.
Painting: Louis-François, Baron Lejeune (1775-1848).
Ancient Egypt lasted for more than 3000 years. The most famous are the successive dynasties of the ancient united Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt. In this period, they invented large-scale agriculture along the fertile lower reaches of the Nile to feed a growing population. They invented paper made from papyrus, and they used hieroglyphs, one of the earliest human writing systems. The ancient Egyptians built the
Canal of the Pharaohs, the forerunner of the Suez Canal, and the
pyramids (around 2,500 BCE), impressive royal tombs.
The end of the ancient Egyptian Empire is believed to have been caused by economic decline and a breakdown of the centralized system of government. Climatic changes that affected the course of the Nile River and its water level probably also played an important role.
Egypt's history has seen many cultures come and go. At the end of dynastic Egypt, its territory was then successively occupied (for some time) by Libyan Berbers, Assyrians, Persians, and the army of Alexander the Great of ancient Macedonia (Greece).
In 31 BC, Egypt came under Roman rule;
Queen Cleopatra committed suicide after Octavian's army defeated her forces. Most scholars refer to her death as the end of the ancient Egyptian Empire.
For the next 600 years, Egypt was a province of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire).
Christianity came to Egypt at the beginning of the 1st century and largely supplanted the Egyptian religion in the 4th century.
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Between 639 and 646 AD, the Muslim conquest of Egypt ended Byzantine rule over the country, and Egypt became part of the Arab Rashidun Caliphate. The region was then ruled by various Muslim Arab powers (caliphates) until it was absorbed into the Turkish Ottoman empire in 1517.
In 1798, Napoléon Bonaparte led the French
Armée d'Orient into Egypt and in a short time conquered Alexandria and then Cairo. But Napoléon's fleet, which anchored at Abu Qir Bay, was destroyed by the British under the command of Admiral Nelson. In October of the same year, dissatisfaction with the French-led to an uprising of the Cairo population.
History of modern Egypt
According to most scholars, the history of modern Egypt begins with the start of the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1805. (Wikipedia article about the history of modern Egypt)
Egypt profile - Timeline
Timeline of Egypt's history
by the BBC.
History
of Egypt
From Ancient to Modern History of Egypt by Egypt TourismNet.
Ancient Egypt
The Archeological Map of Egypt
The project puts all the Egyptian archeological sites on a multimedia geographic
information system to document the Egyptian archeological heritage.
Abzu
Regional Index: Egypt
Index of resources for the study of ancient Egypt, Oriental Institute, University
of Chicago.
Early Egypt
The British Museum's exhibition about Early Egypt, the period from 11000 to 2600 BC.
Ancient Egypt Online
A UK-based site dedicated to the culture, language, religion, and history of Ancient Egypt.
The Ancient Egypt Site
The history, language, and culture of Ancient Egypt by Egyptologist Jacques Kinnear.
Ancient History Encyclopedia: Egypt
Comprehensive portal with information about Egypt's ancient history.
Eternal Egypt
Site about five thousand years of Egyptian civilization, view artifacts, interactive
maps, and timelines.
Guardian's Egypt
A cyber journey to Ancient Egypt
International Association of Egyptologists
Egyptology international.
KMT
A modern journal of Ancient Egypt.
The Pharaonic Village
A journey back in time.
New Kingdom of Egypt
Wikipedia article about the New Kingdom, also known as the Egyptian Empire; it was Egypt's most prosperous time and marked the peak of its power - and its decline.
Cairo. Spoken language is Modern Standard Arabic; the colloquial language is the Egyptian-Arabic dialect (Masri). 
Google
Earth Egypt
List of Museums in Egypt
Wikivoyage: Egypt
Abu Mena
