Old Kingdom
English
Etymology
Calque of German Altes Reich, eventually displacing Old Empire, an older calque of the same term. Coined in the 1840s as part of a periodization of Ancient Egyptian history into Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms.
Proper noun
- (historical) Egypt from the start of the 3rd Dynasty to its disintegration into regional states at the end of the 6th Dynasty.
Translations
Egypt from the 3rd Dynasty through the 6th
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