Updated Chronology for the Early Bronze Age

Prepared by Kyra Nourse, Accurate as of 1992


3500-2900  Early Minoan I   /  Early Helladic I

2900-2300  EM II  /  EH IIA  /  Troy I  / roughly, Dynasty II-VI Egypt

2300-2200  Early Helladic IIB  /  (Troy II = 2400-2300)

2200-2000  EM III  /  EH III  /   Troy III-IV  / Egypt Dyn. VI-X

2000-1800  MM I-IIA  /  MH I  /  Troy V  /  Egypt Dyn. XI

1800-1700  MM IIB  /  1700-1570 MM III

1800-1600  MH II  /  (Troy VI)   /  Egypt Dyn. XII

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1570-1480  LM IA             1600-1520 MH III        

1480-1430  LM IB             1520-1480 LH I

1430-1390  LM II             1480-1430 LH IIA

1390-1350  LM IIIA1          1430-1390 LH IIB

1350-1320  LM IIIA2          1390-1340 LH IIIA1

1300-1200  LM IIIB           1340-1320(?) LH IIIA2

                             1320-1200 LH IIIB    (c.1250 Troy VI destroyed)

                             1200-1100 LH IIIC

                             1100-1050 Submycenaean

All dates are approximate (naturally). Towards the end of the Late Helladic series, this chronology may slip back into the old dating system. The Egyptian dates upon which all of this seems to hang are as follows:

  
1540  Ahmose
c. 1510 Amenhotep I
1500 Tuthmosis I
1480 Tuthmosis II
1460 Hatshepsut
1440 Tuthmosis III
c.1410 Amenhotep II
c. 1390 Tuthmosis IV
c. 1370 Amenhotep III
1340 Akhnaten, Smenkhare, Tutankhamen
1320 Ay, Horemheb

Kyra Nourse