Introduction : chronologies and cultural change in Egypt / Ian Shaw
Prehistory : from the Palaeolithic to the Badarian culture (c. 700,000-4000 BC / Stan Hendrickx and Pierre Vermeersch
The Naqada period (c. 4000-3200 BC) / Béatrix Midant-Reynes
The emergence of the Egyptian state (c. 3200-2686 BC) / Kathryn A. Bard
The Old Kingdom (c. 2686-2125 BC) / Jaromir Malek
The First Intermediate period (c. 2160-2055 BC) / Stephan Seidlmayer
The Middle Kingdom renaissance (c. 2055-1650 BC) / Gae Callender
The Second Intermediate period (c. 1650-1550 BC) / Janine Bourriau
The 18th dynasty before the Amarna period (c. 1550-1352 BC) / Betsy M. Bryan
The Amarna period and the Later New Kingdom (c. 1352-1069 BC) / Jacobus Van Dijk
Egypt and the outside world / Ian Shaw
The Third Intermediate period (1069-664 BC) / John Taylor
The Late period (664-332 BC) / Alan B. Lloyd
The Ptolemaic period (332-30 BC) / Alan B. Lloyd
The Roman period (30 BC-AD 395) / David Peacock.