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Radiocarbon-Based Chronology for Dynastic Egypt

Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Michael W. Dee, Joanne M. Rowland et al., 2010. Science.

A Bayesian model of 211 short-lived samples that places the start of the Old Kingdom at about 2691–2625 BC and agrees with the historical chronology within decades.

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Bronk Ramsey, C., Dee, M. W., Rowland, J. M., Higham, T. F. G., Harris, S. A., Brock, F., Quiles, A., Wild, E. M., Marcus, E. S., & Shortland, A. J. (2010). Radiocarbon-Based Chronology for Dynastic Egypt. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1189395
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