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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Ancient Egypt during the III–VI Dynasties, from c. 2650 to 2150 BC. The Old Kingdom was noted as “the Age of the Pyramids,” with magnificent monuments built by rulers such as Cheops.
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The inscription dates the double tomb to the 6th dynasty, which marked the beginning of the decline of the Old Kingdom, also known as the age of pyramids.
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The inscription dates the double tomb to the 6th dynasty, which marked the beginning of the decline of the Old Kingdom, also known as the age of pyramids.
4,300-Year-Old Tombs Unveiled In Egypt (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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He was one of the last Pharaohs of the Old Kingdom.
Carmen Report: Photos from Egypt Jan 2009
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In Egypt, for instance, Hale-Bopp's appearance coincided with the sixth dynasty, toward the end of the Old Kingdom, when the royal capital was Memphis, near Cairo.
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Teti who was the founder of the 6th Dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom.
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With the records available to us (Mr. Brooks obviously has access to others), the British dig can be identified as that conducted by Mssr. Somers Clarke and J.J. Tylor, during which they cleared the decorated tombs of Ny-ankh-pepy (Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom) and Horemkhawef (Second Intermediate Period) on Old Kingdom hill.
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They include the demise of the Akkad culture of central Iraq, with its mysterious semi-mythological emperor Sargon; the end of the fifth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom, following the building of the Great Pyramids and the sudden disappearance of hundreds of early settlements in the Holy Land.
Archive 2006-03-01 Michael Turton 2006
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Now we leave the Old Kingdom and venture forward to the Middle Kingdom and King Sesostris III's forts near Aswan.
Ten Thousand Men, One Million Stone Blocks, and a Couple of Sleds 2006
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Among them is a series of decorated rock-cut tombs dating to late Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate period, and the early and very late New Kingdom.
Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2006 - The Decorated Tombs of Hierakonpolis 2002
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Political independence produced the Saite revival in painting, architecture, literature, and religion, a nostalgic attempt to recreate the forms and styles of the Old Kingdom.
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