claim · claim_egyfull_early_state_no_exact_unification_year
No exact BCE year or single battle can presently be assigned to the formation of the early Egyptian state.
No exact BCE year or single battle can presently be assigned to the formation of the early Egyptian state.
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Research description
Narmer and early royal imagery remain central evidence, but later and modern unification narratives should not convert them into a precisely dated conquest without qualification.
Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · supports claim
An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling — Michael W. Dee, David Wengrow, Andrew Shortland, Alice Stevenson, Fiona Brock, Linus Girdland Flink, Christopher Bronk Ramsey (2013)Supports the claim and its qualifications.
Locator: Bayesian model and early ruler sequence - supports · supports claim
Late Fourth Millennium BCE — Marcelo Campagno (2013)Supports the claim and its qualifications.
Locator: Political unification discussion
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Referenced records
- Late Naqada political integration and early state formation · event
- Narmer · entity