Empire2055 BCE – 1650 BCE · 405 years
Egyptian Middle Kingdom
A reunified Egypt — quieter than the Old Kingdom, more literary than what came before.
What it was
The Middle Kingdom (~2055–1650 BCE) reunified Egypt under the Theban kings after a period of division. It expanded south into Nubia, fortified the eastern delta against Asiatic incursions, and produced much of the classical Egyptian literary canon.
Why it mattered
The Tale of Sinuhe and the Instructions of Amenemhat, taught for centuries afterward as templates of style, were Middle Kingdom productions.
From Wikipedia
The Middle Kingdom of Egypt is the period in the history of ancient Egypt following a period of political division known as the First Intermediate Period. The Middle Kingdom lasted from approximately 2040 to 1782 or 1700 BC, stretching from the reunification of Egypt under the reign of Mentuhotep II in the Eleventh Dynasty to the end of the Twelfth Dynasty or the mid Thirteenth Dynasty. The kings of the Eleventh Dynasty ruled from Thebes and the kings of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Dynasties ruled from el-Lisht.
Wikipedia: Middle Kingdom of Egypt·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILkept-original
- SNAPSHOT2000 BCE
- MATCHEDEgypt
- POLITY TYPEstate
Wars of this empire2
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Mentuhotep II's Unification Campaign2055–2002 BCEMajor conflict
- Senusret III's Nubian Campaigns1872–1854 BCEMajor conflict
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 2055 BCE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Egyptian Middle Kingdom (2055 BCE – 1650 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/egyptian-middle-kingdom · Sources & methodology