Radiocarbon-Based Chronology for Dynastic Egypt

@article{Ramsey2010RadiocarbonBasedCF,
  title={Radiocarbon-Based Chronology for Dynastic Egypt},
  author={Christopher Bronk Ramsey and Michael W. Dee and Joanne Rowland and Thomas F.G. Higham and Stephen A. Harris and Fiona Brock and Anita Quiles and Eva Maria Wild and Ezra S. Marcus and Andrew Shortland},
  journal={Science},
  year={2010},
  volume={328},
  pages={1554 - 1557},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:206526496}
}
This work used 211 radiocarbon measurements made on samples from short-lived plants, together with a Bayesian model incorporating historical information on reign lengths, to produce a chronology for dynastic Egypt, which indicates that the New Kingdom started between 1570 and 1544 B.C.E. and the reign of Djoser in the Old Kingdomstarted between 2691 and 2625 B.E.; both cases are earlier than some previous historical estimates.
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