Ancient Egypt, reconstructed

NeoKemetAI is the companion platform to the NeoKemet YouTube channel. It brings together the history behind our films: the thirty dynasties, the pharaohs, and the monuments, tombs and objects they left behind.

Chronology

Dates follow the conventional chronology of The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (ed. Ian Shaw, 2000). Before 664 BCE every date is approximate, often by decades, and scholars disagree about the length of several reigns. Where dynasties overlap, rival royal houses ruled different parts of the country at the same time.

Sources

• Ian Shaw (ed.), The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, Oxford University Press.
• Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson.
• Nicholas Reeves & Richard H. Wilkinson, The Complete Valley of the Kings, Thames & Hudson.
• Collections and catalogue records of the Egyptian Museum (Cairo), the Grand Egyptian Museum, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Neues Museum.
• Theban Mapping Project and the ISAC (formerly Oriental Institute), University of Chicago.

How our visuals are made

The imagery in NeoKemet films is AI-assisted archaeological reconstruction. It is an interpretation based on excavated evidence and museum objects, not photographs or footage. Narration is written originally for the channel, and each video's YouTube description lists its sources.