Historians of ancient Egypt say that at least thirty-two pharaonic dynasties existed which saw some of the finest periods in Africa’s civilization.
Dynastic Egypt’s chronology is used to classify the 2,700-year-long list of royal pharaohs based on various sources, including documents translated into Greek and Latin, as well as, archaeological studies using radiocarbon and other techniques.
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The primary source for thirty established dynasties, sequences of rulers united by kinship or their principal royal residence, is the 3rd century B.C.E. Egyptian priest Manetho. His entire work included a king-list and narratives written in Greek and called the Aegyptiaca (History of Egypt).
With the rise and fall of the Kemetic period now absorbed by Arabs in Egypt, there are a few curiosities which require some airing. Here are 10 to chew on.