Art 211
Egypt
Late Bronze Age
Chronology

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"I was a favorite of the king in his every place... I attained the old age of the revered, I possessed the favor of His Majesty every day. I was supplied from the table of the king with bread." -- INENI, architect to Thutmosis II
LATE BRONZE AGE CHRONOLOGY
Egypt Date Greece
Minoan Mycenean
Hittite
General advent of Indo-european speaking, chariot- using outsiders
2nd Intermediate Period
Hyksos
ca. 1650

MIDDLE MINOAN
Snake Goddess
Old Palace Period

Hattusilis I "Man of Hattusas"
MIDDLE HELLADIC
Mycenean Shaft Graves
Dynasty XVIII
Thuthmose II
ca. 1500 LATE MINOAN I
New Palace Period
high point of Minoan Knossos
Hatshepsut
   Deir el Bahri
ca. 1450 Greek takeover of Knossos
"Palace Style"
Amenhotep III
   Tiye
   Tomb of Menna
ca 1400  

Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten
   Nefertiti
   Smenkhare?
Tutankhamun
    Widow writes to Hittite king
Horemheb

ca 1350 Building at Mycenae
Tiryns, Pylos
King Suppiluliumas

Dynasty XIX
Ramses II (1290-1224)
   Abu Simbel
   Battle of Kadesh with Hittites

ca. 1250 LATE HELLADIC III A
Trojan War

Rebuilding of Hattusas

Muwatallis II

Tudhilaya IV

Dynasty XX
Ramses III (1194-1163)
   Medinet Habu
   Battle with Sea Peoples
ca. 1189 LH III B

ca. 1100 General Destructions over the Mediterranean area
End of XX Dyn. ca. 1070   LH IIIC  

 


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