What was the end of Ancient Egypt?

Timothy Roberts

108w ago

I argue Egypt was long dead by the time of Roman conquest, and if not dead by the time of Alexander the Great's conquest, then certainly on its death bed.

The thing you have to understand is that Egypt, as a power, is old. The height of Egyptian power was at the same time as the Romans say that Aeneas was being guided on his epic quest, and when Greece was a just beginning to become a major player. This was the New Kingdom, the Golden Age.

The Empire started to decline after this. Peoples such as the Persians and Babylonians started to emerge, and subsequently become threats to Egypt. Egypt, predictably, weathered these people for a time, but eventually they fell. First to Persia, in the Achaemenid invasion, which ended with a Persian victory, and the creation of the 27th dynasty of Egypt, the First Achaemenid Dynasty. They were conquered again, after 3 dynasties' worth of independence, by Artaxerxes III of Persia, who installed another Achaemenid dynasty, which was then promptly toppled by Alexander the Great, in 332 BBC. After Alexander died in 323 BCE, His General Ptolemy took control of Egypt, creating the Ptolemaic dynasty. That dynasty ended with Cleopatra VII Ptolemy, lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, who was conquered by Augustus Caesar, defeated at the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE.

The Romans did let the Egyptians worship their own gods, and, as per usual, adopted several into their own ever expanding pantheon. But that's not the point. BY then, Egypt was dead. What the ROmans conquered, was a Greek-Egyptian hybrid (well, Macedonian-Geek-Egyptian, but anyway). The real Egypt had been killed 500 years earlier, after the first Persian invasion.

Mohan Lal

Blogger (2016-present)

35w ago

Researchers believe climate change brought 'mega drought' that ended an Egyptian kingdom 4,200 years ago.

The researchers examined the presence and amount of charcoal, as fires increase during times of drought leaving charcoal in the geological records.

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Kathleen O'loughlin

celtic, viking, native american, some european, chinese, egyptian

58w ago

I know hieroglyphics were in use until the 9th century when the then Pope declared them unholy and they tore down the last remaining temples. I don’t remember the name of the pope but I could probably find it.