Condensed from two separate posts found on Tumblr:
Ancient Egypt existed for a really long time. Literally just Pharaonic civilization lasted 3,000 years. That's not even including predynastic civilization and Roman rule. If you lump those in you're looking at more like… 5,000 years.
So, if you want a comparison of how long that is: THE YEAR IS CURRENTLY 2019. TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN. TWO-THIRDS OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PHARAONIC CIVILIZATION HAVE HAPPENED SINCE THE "BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST."
We comparatively just entered the Third Intermediate Period. The Greeks will not take over for another ~700 years. Cleopatra will not be born until the year 2931.
It's a really long time.
To make this clear, I sat my ass down and wrote out a timeline of "when shit happened if you started at 1 AD" because I know backwards numbers are hard to process but here's an abridged version.
If the first Egyptian Pharaoh came to power in 1AD then…
300 AD: step pyramid built
450 AD: Great Pyramid at Giza built
815 AD: Pepi II dies and civil war breaks out
950 AD: Egypt re-unified
1350 AD: Middle Kingdom ends
1450 AD: New Kingdom begins
1520 AD: Hatshepsut is on the throne
1650 AD : Ahkenaten switches to monotheistic religion and builds a new city
1680 AD: Tutankhamun dies
1720 AD: Ramesses II "the great" ascends to the throne
1740 AD: World's first peace treaty signed
1790 AD: Ramesses II dies leaving way too many children
1920 AD: Egypt breaks into 2 states again
And now we get to—the future, If we started at 1 AD all of this stuff hasn't happened yet
2050 AD: Briefly re-united as a single state
2180 AD: Civil war
2250 AD: Nubian kings take over
2335 AD: Assyrian conquest
2665 AD: Alexander the Great conquers Egypt
2930 AD: Cleopatra VII born
2970 AD: Cleopatra VII dies. Egypt falls to Rome. Fin.
And that's just starting with the Pharaohs. If you wanted to start with Predynastic Egypt, you can go ahead and ADD ONE THOUSAND YEARS to all of those dates