The rise of the Old Kingdom in Egypt

2686 BCAntediluvian Era

The facts

Dates	2686 BC
Era	Antediluvian Era
Source	Printed on the chart

Where this sits on the chart

The rise of the Old Kingdom in Egypt falls 1318 years out from Creation at the centre, inside the Antediluvian Era arc. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.

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Who else was alive

First phase of Stonehenge construction3000 BC Pottery develops in Americas3000 BC The beginning of the Bronze Age in the Near East3000 BC Noah2948 BC – 1998 BC Forming different tribes and peoples2590 BC Construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza2560 BC – 2580 BC Shem2446 BC – 1846 BC The Flood2348 BC

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