KEMET
Old Kingdom
CHRONOLOGY OF COGNITION

The River of Time

Six thousand years of human history, preserved in stone and bronze. Scrub through the dynasties below to explore the reigns that forged a cosmos in the Nile desert.

Predynastic Period
6000 BCE
Early Dynastic Period
3150 BCE
Old Kingdom
2686 BCE
First Intermediate Period
2181 BCE
Middle Kingdom
2055 BCE
Second Intermediate Period
1650 BCE
New Kingdom
1550 BCE
Third Intermediate Period
1069 BCE
Late Period
664 BCE
Ptolemaic Period
332 BCE
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Old Kingdom

"The Golden Age of Pyramids. Absolute monarchs, ruling as gods on earth, mobilized an entire nation to construct monuments of staggering scale. From the stepped monument at Saqqara to the grand geometric giants of Giza, stone was conquered to guarantee eternal life for the king and cosmic order for the Nile Valley. A supreme era of centralized power, artistic harmony, and monumental vision."