Pharaonic & Roman · event 1 of 8

c. 3100 BC

Memphis is founded. The capital of a newly unified Egypt is established twenty kilometres south of the future Cairo, and remains the country’s chief city for most of the Old Kingdom.

The Pharaonic & Roman era

  1. c. 3100 BC
  2. c. 2670 BC
  3. c. 2560 BC
  4. c. 1300 BC
  5. 332 BC
  6. 30 BC
  7. c. 42 AD
  8. c. 300 AD

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