The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty...
The Shang Dynasty or Yin Dynasty was according to traditional sources the second Chinese dynasty. They ruled in the northeastern region of the area known as "China proper", in the...
The Zhou Dynasty was preceded by the Shang Dynasty and followed by the Qin Dynasty in China. The Zhou dynasty...
The Eighteenth Dynasty is perhaps the best known of all the dynasties of ancient Egypt. As well as a number of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, it included Tutankhamun, whose tomb...
The Xia Dynasty (Chinese: 夏朝; pinyin: Xià Cháo; Wade–Giles: Hsia-Ch'ao; IPA: [ɕiâ tʂʰɑ̌ʊ̯]; ca. 2070 – ca. 1600 BC) is the first dynasty in China to be described in ancient historical...
The Ptolemaic dynasty was a Hellenistic Macedonian royal family which ruled the Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt for nearly 300...
The Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, New Kingdom. The Nineteenth Dynasty was founded by Vizier Ramesses I, whom...
The Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, New Kingdom. This dynasty is considered to be the last one of the New Kingdom...
The Archaic or Early Dynastic Period of Egypt immediately follows the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt c. 3150 BC. It is generally taken to include the First and Second Dynasties...
The Eleventh dynasty of ancient Egypt was one group of rulers, whose earlier members are grouped with the four preceding dynasties to form the First Intermediate Period, while the later...
The Thirteenth Dynasty is one of the groupings of pharaohs or rulers of ancient Egypt. With the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Fourteenth Dynasties it is sometimes combined under the title Middle...
The Eleventh , Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Middle Kingdom. Known rulers, in the History of Egypt, for the...
The twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth dynasties of Ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Third Intermediate Period. The known...
The Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Third Intermediate Period. The known...
The Saite or Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt was the last native dynasty to rule Egypt before the Persian conquest , and had its capital at Sais. It is part of the Late Period....
The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd millennium BCE when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement – this was the...
The Protodynastic Period of Egypt refers to the period of time at the very end of the Predynastic Period. It is equivalent to the archaeological phase known as Naqada...
The Jōmon period is the time in Japanese prehistory from about 14,000 BC to 400 BC. The term "Jōmon" means "cord-patterned" in Japanese. This refers to the markings made on clay vessels...
The Maurya Empire , ruled by the Mauryan dynasty, was a geographically extensive and powerful political and military empire in ancient India. Originating from the kingdom of Magadha in...
The Roman Iron Age is the name that Swedish archaeologist Oscar Montelius gave to a part of the Iron Age in Scandinavia, Northern Germany and the Netherlands. The name comes from the hold...
The Nordic Bronze Age is the name given by Oscar Montelius to a period and a Bronze Age culture in Scandinavian pre-history, ca 1800 BCE - 500 BCE, with sites that reached as...
The Third Intermediate Period refers to the time in Ancient Egypt from the death of Pharaoh Ramesses XI in 1070 BC to the foundation of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty by Psamtik I in 664 BC...
The Second Intermediate Period marks a period when Ancient Egypt once again fell into disarray between the end of the Middle Kingdom, and the start of the New Kingdom. It is best known as...
The Triệu Dynasty is the name given in Vietnam to the lineage of kings of the kingdom of Nam Việt , which ruled over parts of southern China and northern Vietnam, and, in...