3rd Intermediate Period Overview
- Neolithic Period: 4500-3000 BCE
- Early Dynastic: 3000-2650 BCE
- Old Kingdom: 2650-2150 BCE
- 1st Intermediate Period: 2150-2040 BCE
- Middle Kingdom: 2040-1640 BCE
- 2nd Intermediate Period: 1640-1550 BCE
- New Kingdom: 1550-1070 BCE
- 3rd Intermediate Period: 1070-712 BCE
- Saite and Late Periods: 712-332 BCE
- Greco-Roman Period: 332 BCE-642 CE
- Coptic Period: 395-642 CE
- Islamic Period and Modern Times: 642 CE-Today
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- Neolithic Period: 4500-3000 BCE
- Early Dynastic: 3000-2650 BCE
- Old Kingdom: 2650-2150 BCE
- 1st Intermediate Period: 2150-2040 BCE
- Middle Kingdom: 2040-1640 BCE
- 2nd Intermediate Period: 1640-1550 BCE
- New Kingdom: 1550-1070 BCE
- 3rd Intermediate Period: 1070-712 BCE
- Saite and Late Periods: 712-332 BCE
- Greco-Roman Period: 332 BCE-642 CE
- Coptic Period: 395-642 CE
- Islamic Period and Modern Times: 642 CE-Today
The Third Intermediate Period
1070 BCE – 712 BCE
Once again Egypt let its foreign conquests, especially those in western Asia, slip away. Labor strikes, economic woes, and revolts from within the country weakened Egypt’s pharaohs until a number of concurrent kings and princes divided the country among themselves.
During the Third Intermediate Period, confusion reigned supreme. Egyptian rulers (based in Northern Egypt) clashed with Nubians (ruling from Thebes) who saw themselves as the heirs of Egypt’s Empire.
Egypt’s Nubian kings looked back to artwork from periods of stability. They depicted themselves in traditional ways to assert their “Egyptian-ness.”
Artifacts from the Third Intermediate Period
