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EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION

  • 3300 BCE

    MEDICINE

    MEDICINE
    Ancient Egypt (3300BCE to 525BCE) is where the first dawn of modern medical care has been found, including bone setting, dentistry, simple surgery, and the use of different sets of medicinal pharmacopeias (Nunn, 2002).19 Jun 2021
  • 3150 BCE

    EGYPT CIVILIZATION

    EGYPT CIVILIZATION
    The historical records of ancient Egypt begin with Egypt as a unified state, which occurred sometime around 3150 BC. According to Egyptian tradition, Menes, thought to have unified Upper and Lower Egypt, was the first king.
  • 3100 BCE

    HIEROGLYPHICS (EGYPTIAN WRITING)

    HIEROGLYPHICS (EGYPTIAN WRITING)
    The hieroglyphic script originated shortly before 3100 B.C., at the very onset of pharaonic civilization. The last hieroglyphic inscription in Egypt was written in the 5th century A.D., some 3500 years later.
  • 3100 BCE

    IRRIGATION

    IRRIGATION
    However, the earliest and most famous reference to irrigation in Egyptian archaeology has been found on the mace head of the Scorpion King, which has been roughly dated to about 3100 BC. The mace head depicts the king cutting into a ditch that is part of a grid of basin irrigation.
  • 3000 BCE

    MATH

    MATH
    Ancient Egyptian mathematics is the mathematics that was developed and used in Ancient Egypt c. 3000 to c. 300 BCE, from the Old Kingdom of Egypt until roughly the beginning of Hellenistic Egypt.
  • 2700 BCE

    PYRAMID

    PYRAMID
    Tombs of early Egyptian kings were bench-shaped mounds called mastabas. Around 2780 BCE, King Djoser's architect, Imhotep, built the first pyramid by placing six mastabas, each smaller than the one beneath, in a stack to form a pyramid rising in steps.
  • 2510 BCE

    EGYPT CALENDER

    EGYPT CALENDER
    The civil calendar was established at some early date in or before the Old Kingdom, with probable evidence of its use early in the reign of Shepseskaf ( c. 2510 BC, Dynasty IV) and certain attestation during the reign of Neferirkare (mid-25th century BC, Dynasty V).
  • 1417 BCE

    WATER CLOCK

    WATER CLOCK
    Egypt. The oldest water clock of which there is physical evidence dates to c. 1417–1379 BC, during the reign of Amenhotep III where it was used in the Temple of Amen-Re at Karnak.
  • 5 BCE

    ASTRONOMY

    ASTRONOMY
    Egyptian astronomy began in prehistoric times, in the Predynastic Period. In the 5th millennium BCE, the stone circles at Nabta Playa may have made use of astronomical alignments.
  • EGYPT RELIGION

    EGYPT RELIGION
    Islam has been the state religion in Egypt since the amendment of the second article of the Egyptian constitution in the year 1980, before which Egypt was recognized as a secular country.