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Marie-Lan Nguyen (2010) · CC BY 2.5
Landmark Middle East archaeological

Abydos

5000 BCE – 30 BCE · 4,970 years

One of Egypt's oldest and most sacred cities, burial place of the first pharaohs and site of the Temple of Seti I with its famous king list

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Abydos (Hellespont) on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Egypt (3000 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  2. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Ptolemaic Kingdom (300 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Roman Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Rome (Diocletianus) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Eastern Roman Empire (400 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Fatimid Caliphate (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Ayyubid Sultanate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Mamluk Sultanate (1279 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Egypt (1715 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. Ottoman Empire (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. Egypt (1815 CE–1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  17. United Arab Republic (1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  18. Egypt (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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  • Approximate

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Great Pyramid of Giza

2560 BCE – still standing

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Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Conquests of Cyrus the Great

559 BCE – 530 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

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Petra

300 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Egypt

Attested 3000 BCE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Unification of Egypt

3100 BCE – 2950 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 5000 BCE and 30 BCE.

3800 BCE Ur 3200 BCE Ancient Thebes 3100 BCE Unification of Egypt 3100 BCE Early Sumerian City-State Wars 3100 BCE Memphis

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Hindu kingdoms Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 1715 CE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Greco-Persian Wars Conflict · Europe 499 BCE – 449 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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