History of Ancient Egypt | Predynastic and Old Kingdom | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Intro and Welcome
00:01:19 From Villages to Early Chiefdoms (c. 7000–3000 BCE)
00:18:18 Narmer and the First Pharaohs (c. 3100–2686 BCE)
00:30:54 Age of the Pyramids (c. 2686–2181 BCE)
00:42:17 Life in the Old Kingdom
00:59:45 Fragmentation and Decline

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Sources and Further Reading

Narmer Palette (c. 3100 BCE).

Palermo Stone (Royal Annals, c. 2400 BCE).

Pyramid Texts of Unas (c. 2350 BCE).

Autobiography of Weni (c. 2280 BCE, 6th Dynasty inscription).

Autobiography of Harkhuf (c. 2250 BCE, 6th Dynasty inscription).

“Admonitions of Ipuwer” (c. 1900 BCE, Middle Kingdom papyrus).

Midant-Reynes, B. (2000). The Prehistory of Egypt.

Wilkinson, T. (1999). Early Dynastic Egypt.

Lichtheim, M. (1973). Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vol. I.

Shaw, I. (ed.) (2000). The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt.

Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.