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Refining the dates of Ancient Egypt’s first dynasty

Refining the dates of Ancient Egypt's first dynasty

What we know of the history of the First Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, which was the first state formed in Egypt about a thousand years before the building of the first pyramids, has largely depended so far on archaeological findings of ceramics. Archaeologists studied the evolving style of ceramics used in burial chambers to determine the order of the kings and queens of the dynasty, which offered a rough estimate at best.  Read more