Egypt — Palace-Linked Rulers

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RULERS · EGYPT

Rulers currently connected to verified palace records, from the Middle Kingdom to the end of the monarchy.

c. 19th century BCE

Amenemhat III

Pharaoh

Second Intermediate Period

Hyksos Rulers of Avaris

Kings of the Fifteenth Dynasty

c. 1479–1425 BCE

Thutmose III

Pharaoh

c. 1390–1353 BCE

Amenhotep III

Pharaoh

c. 1353–1336 BCE

Akhenaten

Pharaoh

1279–1213 BCE

Ramesses II

Pharaoh

c. 1186–1155 BCE

Ramesses III

Pharaoh

305–282 BCE

Ptolemy I Soter

King of Egypt

51–30 BCE

Cleopatra VII

Queen of Egypt

868–884

Ahmad ibn Tulun

Ruler of Egypt

953–975; Cairo founded 969

al-Muʿizz li-Din Allah

Fatimid Caliph

975–996

al-Aziz Billah

Fatimid Caliph

1171–1193

Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub

Ayyubid Sultan

1218–1238

al-Kamil Muhammad

Ayyubid Sultan

1240–1249

al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub

Ayyubid Sultan

1293–1294; 1299–1309; 1310–1341

al-Nasir Muhammad

Mamluk Sultan

1805–1848

Muhammad Ali Pasha

Wali of Egypt

1848

Ibrahim Pasha

Wali of Egypt

1848–1854

Abbas I Hilmi

Wali of Egypt

1854–1863

Saʿid Pasha

Wali of Egypt

1863–1879

Khedive Ismail

Khedive of Egypt

1879–1892

Khedive Tewfik

Khedive of Egypt

1892–1914

Abbas II Hilmi

Khedive of Egypt

1914–1917

Hussein Kamel

Sultan of Egypt

1917–1936

Fuad I

Sultan / King of Egypt

1936–1952

Farouk I

King of Egypt

1952–1953

Fuad II

King of Egypt

This is the palace-linked sovereign layer. A later Egypt chronology pass can expand it to every ruler, including reigns without surviving or identified palace records.

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Egypt · Rulers