entity · pol_new_kingdom_egypt
New Kingdom Egypt
A political entity represented in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age evidence graph.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1550 BCE–1069 BCE
Precision: not specified
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Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
New Kingdom Egypt
The Egyptian state and cultural-political order of the New Kingdom, including the late Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties relevant to this release.
Why does this record have this property?
The polity is the New Kingdom Egyptian state itself.
- The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah: Grand Strategy in the 13th Century BC
supports assignment - Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III
supports assignment
Late Bronze Age Great Power
A state participating at the highest level of the Late Bronze Age diplomatic and geopolitical system.
Why does this record have this property?
Egypt was one of the principal Late Bronze Age great powers.
Political Survival
Continuation of a polity or dynastic-administrative tradition through a period of wider regional crisis.
Why does this record have this property?
Egypt survived the crisis period as a state, although its resources, external control, and internal stability changed.
- Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III
supports assignment - Excavations of the New Kingdom Fortress in Jaffa, 2011–2014: Traces of Resistance to Egyptian Rule in Canaan
supports assignment - Turin Strike Papyrus
supports assignment
Transformed Polity
A state or political tradition that survived in altered territorial, institutional, or geopolitical form.
Why does this record have this property?
Survival involved contraction from parts of the Levant and mounting internal fiscal stress rather than unchanged continuity.
- Excavations of the New Kingdom Fortress in Jaffa, 2011–2014: Traces of Resistance to Egyptian Rule in Canaan
supports assignment - Turin Strike Papyrus
supports assignment
New Kingdom
Modern label for Dynasties 18 to 20.
Why does this record have this property?
The political formation falls within this modern period or dynasty classification for the stated interval. The assignment is a modern classification and does not create an ancient event or permanent territorial identity.
- The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
supports assignment · Political chronology
Imperial military and administrative reach
A period-specific combination of direct rule, garrisons, tribute and campaigning beyond the Nile Valley.
Why does this record have this property?
The record exhibits this analytical property during the stated interval, with the linked source defining the evidence and limitations. The assignment is a modern classification and does not create an ancient event or permanent territorial identity.
- History of Egypt in Palestine
supports assignment · Relevant evidence and interpretation
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports entity record
The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah: Grand Strategy in the 13th Century BC — Colleen Manassa (2003)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of New Kingdom Egypt.
- supports · supports entity record
Medinet Habu, Volume I: Earlier Historical Records of Ramses III — The Epigraphic Survey (1930)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of New Kingdom Egypt.
- supports · supports entity record
Turin Strike Papyrus — Ancient Egyptian scribes; Museo Egizio catalogueSupports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of New Kingdom Egypt.
Referenced records
- Egypt · entity