Old Kingdom

基本解释

Thebes was the ruling capital of ancient Egypt during its most dominant eras， beginning with the Old Kingdom 4500 years ago， and is home to two of its most revered temples at Karnak and Luxor.
从4500年前的埃及古王国开始时，底比斯就被古埃及大多数重要的朝代定为首都。
The Giza Pyramids, built to endure an eternity, have done just that. The monumental tombs are relics of Egypt's Old Kingdom era and were constructed some 4, 500 year
为了永存于世而修建的吉萨金字塔恰如其分地完成着它的使命.这不朽的古墓群是埃及古代国王统治区域的遗址它们大约建于四千五百年前.
It is located in Saqqara, about 12 miles south of Cairo, the final resting place of most of the Egyptian rulers who lived in the Old Kingdom capital of Memphis.
该金字塔位于开罗以南12英里的小村庄塞加拉。大多数古埃及王国的统治者生前居住在首都孟斐斯，而死后则把这里当做最后的安息地。

Adding her data to that from known and studied tells, she was able to tell, as it were, the story of the Old Kingdom's demise, and its connection with climate change.
ECONOMIST: Climate change and civilisation
One of Dr Weiss's former students, Sarah Parcak, of Cambridge University, presented data to the meeting on how a third period of cooling and drying, 4, 200 years ago, destroyed the Old Kingdom of Egypt.
ECONOMIST: Climate change and civilisation
Of course, rain-fed agriculture is even more vulnerable to climate change than the irrigated variety, as Ms Parcak's Cambridge colleague Lauren Ristvet showed the conference with her study of northern Syria during the same period as the fall of Egypt's Old Kingdom.
ECONOMIST: Climate change and civilisation

a period of Egyptian history: usually considered to extend from the third to the sixth dynasty (?2700?2150 bc) (2780-2280)