Ancient Egypt was a lengthy civilization in
north-eastern Africa. It was located along the middle to lower ends of the
Nile River, with its greatest extent in the second millennium BC, during the
New Kingdom. It extended from the Nile Delta in the north, and as far south as
Jebel Barkal at the Fourth Cataract of the Nile. Extensions to the geographic
range of ancient Egyptian civilization included, at various times, areas of
the southern Levant, the Eastern Desert and the Red Sea coastal area, the
Sinai Peninsula, and the Western body. Ancient Egypt expanded over at least
three and a half millennia. It began with the unification of Nile Valley
polities around 3150 BC, and is was thought to have ended in 31 BC when the
early Roman Empire conquered and controlled Ptolemaic Egypt as a state.
Featured below are Egyptian chess sets that borrow from that time period.
