What year/BC did the ancient egyptians come to Egpyt?

Question

When did the ancient egyptians start their reign.

Answer 1

That's a very good (and sligthly difficult) question! People have been interested in the history of Egypt for a long time, in fact it was all the rage in ancient Greece after Herodotus wrote a sort of travel book on the region in the 5th century BC!
Despite this, and all the research and archealogy in the region over the years, there's still a lot we don't really know about early Egypt...

People were probably beginning to settle down along the Nile as long ago as 6000 BC, and the size of settlements apprently began to grow quite rapidly after around 4000 BC. After about 3500 BC there's evidence of towns with bud-brick buildings and what we now call Egypt seems to have been split loosely into two smaller kingdoms: Lower Egypt, along the north of the Nile and its delta, and Upper Egypt, along the southern part of the Nile river.
The exact details are a bit of a mystery, but around 3100 BC a King from Upper Egypt defeated the King of the Delta and united the country for the first time.

Before the unification we call the 'Predynastic period' and after this came the 'Early dynastic period', which could be considered the beginning of a single reign of Egypt.

There were many more dynasties in Egypt, including a period we call 'The Old Kingdom', which is when Egypt's most famous landmarks were built - the pyramids!

If you want to know more, there's a very good website from the British Museum at http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Answer 2

You'd be surprised to know that most Americans can't find the US on a world map. Long ago, Liz Taylor and Charleton Heston convinced Americans that Egyptians were white. It's a hard image for some people to break. But I think that Emphamiz has it right. There are varying degrees of shade in every culture. It can get really confusing in the fullness of the World's history. And yeah, that Jesus bit cracks me up everytime. Most the people who believe he was white are the same people who hate on those who come from the Middle East to begin with. Ironic!

Answer 3

theres is the archaic age or the unification of Egypt and that srated in 3100 b.c.
old kingdom which is when the pyriminds went up and that was 2600b.c.
then the political choas era which is in 2180 b.c.
they recovered politically in 2080 b.c.
then had a invasion by the Hyksos in 1640 b.c.
and finally had a creation of an Empire in 1570 B.C.

Answer 4

I am not sure when exactly it started but I know the years that they prospered was the 1300 bc

Answer 5

3100 BC

Reign starts 2686 BC ... third dynasty it's called !