Thinis was an ancient Egyptian city in Upper Egypt, near Abydos, and it is regarded as the home of the first kings of a united Egypt. Egyptian tradition held that the legendary king Menes, who unified the country, came from Thinis, and the first two dynasties are therefore called the Thinite period. Its exact location has never been identified with certainty, and it is thought to lie somewhere near the modern town of Girga, perhaps beneath cultivated land or the Nile floodplain. The royal tombs of the early kings were built at the nearby necropolis of Abydos, and the city was later the capital of a nome, or province, of Upper Egypt.
Before and after
- c. 4,350 BCEEruption of Kikai
- c. 4,050 BCEEruption of Masaya
- from 5th millennium BCE to 1st millennium BCEAncient Egypt
- 5th millennium BCEOrigins of Jerusalem
- c. 4,000 BCEOrigins of Thinis
- from c. 4,000 BCE to 3,100 BCEUruk period
- c. 4,000 BCEEruption of Witori
- c. 3,600 BCEConstruction of Ġgantija
- from c. 3,600 BCE to 2,500 BCEOrigins of Megalithic Temples of Malta
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- from 4th millennium BCE to 1st millenniumAncient history
The era
This moment belongs to the Human prehistory (300,000 years ago to 3,200 BCE), the human story before writing.