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Wrestlers are painted on the walls of an Egyptian tomb, performing most of the holds and falls still in use today
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, copied out by Ahmes, an Egyptian scribe, offers some of the world's first exam questions
The biblical account suggests that around this period the Hebrews are a captive tribe in Egypt
Egyptian tombs include paintings of a kind to help the occupants in the next world, whether in the Book of the Dead or on the walls
The New Kingdom begins in Egypt, bringing the most spectacular of all the dynasties
The god Osiris, in his tall white headdress, represents in Egyptian tombs the idea of resurrection in the next world
Thutmose I extends Egyptian control as far up the Nile as Abu Hamad
A copper trumpet is in use in Egypt, forerunner of the brass instruments of the orchestra
The Jews adopt a long-established Egyptian ritual - the circumcision of boys
The temples of Karnak and Luxor, in ancient Thebes, introduce the massive stone architecture of column and lintel
The gods Amen and Re are merged at Thebes as Amen-Re, the most important deity in the Egyptian pantheon
The camel, in both its single-humped and double-humped varieties, is domesticated in north Africa and Asia
Hatshepsut takes power in Egypt, and is unusual in being a female pharaoh
Rich Egyptian households have the latest luxury items, small bottles of coloured glass to hold cosmetics
The clepsydra, or water clock, is developed in Egypt
The pharaoh Amenhotep III commissions the great temple to Amen-Re at Luxor
The Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV adopts a new deity, Aten, and changes his name to Akhenaten
The pharaoh Akhenaten creates a new capital city on the Nile at Tell el Amarna
The Amarna letters, an invaluable collection of cuneiform tablets, are written at the court of the pharaoh Akhenaten
One of the regular sitters to the court sculptor Thutmose is the pharaoh's wife, Nefertiti
With the return to favour of the god Amen, the young Tutankhaten's name is changed to Tutankhamun
The young Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamun, dies and is buried in a suitable tomb
Ramses II, perhaps the greatest of Egypt's pharaohs, begins a reign of sixty-six years
An indecisve battle between the Hittites and the Egyptians, at Kadesh, stabilizes the frontier between the two empires
