Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt lasted longer than the gap between its end and the present day, which is the fact that reframes everything else about it. This category covers the pharaohs and dynasties, the monuments and how they were actually built, the writing system and the long effort to read it again, and the beliefs about death that preserved so much of the evidence. It leans on what archaeology supports rather than on the popular mythology that accumulated around it. The explanations note where the record is solid and where it is still argued over.