Ancient Egypt By karimandraoos 5000 BCE Farming communities began to apear in both Egypt and Nubia 2589 BCE Builders begin Great Pyramid 2533 BCE Great Sphinx statue is completed Period: 1991 BCE to 1786 BCE Egypt expands into Lower Nubia, literature and art flourish 1567 BCE New kingdom begins Period: 1504 BCE to 1450 BCE Reign of Thutmose III, empire expands into Syria Period: 1503 BCE to 1482 BCE Queen Hatshepsut rules 322 BCE Egypt fell to the famous conqueror Alexander the Great of Macedonia 51 BCE Queen Cleopatra VII became the last Macedonian to rule Egypt 31 BCE Egypt became part of the Roman Empire 400 Writing hieroglyphics was lost 1799 The Rosetta stone