Dynasty Notes

The rulers of Egypt have been separated into 33 separate dynasties. Most of our information about the dynasties -- and the traditional chronology and content of them -- comes from Manetho. In most cases, he changed from one dynasty to antoher because of family lines, political changes or changes of location for the capitol or ruiling family.

In some cases, we have no idea why he broke the dynasty chronologies as he did and some few seem pretty artbitrrary, at least to me.

However, below is a shortcut list to the major dynasties of Egyptian pharaohs. From each dynasty page, you can walk through the chronology, pharaoh by pharaoh, or jump around to see who you are interested in. For a complete list, see the pharaoh index to this site to find a particular pharaoh.

Egyptian Dynasties
dynasty 0/00
dynasty 1	dynasty 12	dynasty 23
dynasty 2	dynasty 13	dynasty 24
dynasty 3	dynasty 14	dynasty 25
dynasty 4	dynasty 15	dynasty 26
dynasty 5	dynasty 16	dynasty 27
dynasty 6	dynasty 17	dynasty 28
dynasty 7	dynasty 18	dynasty 29
dynasty 8	dynasty 19	dynasty 30
dynasty 9	dynasty 20	dynasty 31
dynasty 10	dynasty 21	dynasty 32
dynasty 11	dynasty 22	dynasty 33

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