Empire1479 BCE – 1200 BCE · 279 years
Egyptian New Kingdom
Egypt at its imperial maximum — Thutmose III's armies on the Euphrates, Akhenaten's heretic capital, Tutankhamun's gold.
What it was
The New Kingdom (~1550–1077 BCE) saw Egypt become a true empire, controlling the Levant up to the Euphrates and Nubia down past the fourth cataract. Pharaohs like Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Akhenaten, and Ramesses II are the names most people associate with "ancient Egypt".
Why it mattered
The New Kingdom's collapse was part of the broader Late Bronze Age Collapse around 1177 BCE — a near-extinction event for eastern Mediterranean civilization.
From Wikipedia
The New Kingdom, also called the Egyptian Empire, refers to ancient Egypt between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC. This period of ancient Egyptian history covers the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth dynasties. Through radiocarbon dating, the establishment of the New Kingdom has been placed between 1570 and 1544 BC. The New Kingdom followed the Second Intermediate Period and was succeeded by the Third Intermediate Period. It was the most prosperous time for ancient Egypt and marked the peak of its power.
Wikipedia: New 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.
- SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
- DETAILhand-traced-from:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kingdom_of_Egypt
- SNAPSHOT1450 BCE
- MATCHEDEgypt
- POLITY TYPEstate
Wars of this empire19
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Battle of Kadesh1274 BCEWorld-changing · 10K dead
- World-changing
- Sea Peoples Invasions1200–1150 BCEWorld-changing
- Merneptah's Libyan War1208 BCEMajor conflict
- Thutmose III's Levantine Campaigns (Campaigns 3-4)1477–1476 BCESignificant · 5.0K dead
- Thutmose III's Second Nubian Campaign1473–1472 BCESignificant
- Thutmose III's Mitanni Wars (Campaigns 7-9)1472–1469 BCESignificant
- Hatshepsut's expedition to Punt1469 BCESignificant
- Thutmose III's Northern Campaigns (Campaigns 10-13)1468–1465 BCESignificant
- Thutmose III's Later Levantine Campaigns (14-17)1464–1459 BCESignificant
- Amenhotep II's Nubian Campaigns1428–1400 BCESignificant
- Hittite-Amarna Correspondence Period1380–1350 BCESignificant
- Muwatalli II's Levantine Campaigns1295–1275 BCESignificant
- Ramesses II's Amurru Conquest1278–1273 BCESignificant
- Ramesses II's Nubian Campaigns1275–1200 BCESignificant
- Ramesses II's Palestinian Campaigns1270–1250 BCESignificant
- Battle of Megiddo1468 BCERegional
- Amenhotep III's Nubian Consolidation1390–1352 BCERegional
- Egyptian Upper Kingdom Campaign1390–1350 BCERegional
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1479 BCE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Egyptian New Kingdom (1479 BCE – 1200 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/egyptian-new-kingdom-peak · Sources & methodology