The Ancient World · event 2 of 11

c. 1500 BC

Egyptians visit their own antiquities. Graffiti left by New Kingdom Egyptian officials at the Step Pyramid at Saqqara records that they came to see the monuments of an earlier age. The pyramids were already a thousand years old and were already being visited for their own sake.

The The Ancient World era

  1. c. 3000 BC
  2. c. 1500 BC
  3. c. 776 BC
  4. c. 440 BC
  5. c. 130 BC
  6. c. 100 AD
  7. c. 150 AD
  8. 326 AD
  9. c. 630 AD
  10. 632 AD
  11. c. 1000

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