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All dates in this chronology are approximations (c.) and occur before the common era (B.C.E.).
| 3500–3300 | Statuettes and paintings on pots buried in graves represent dancers performing a funeral dance, the earliest known representations of such dances. Ostriches are depicted dancing in the desert. |
| 2500–2170 | More Old Kingdom tombs include scenes of dance. Tombs of the high officials Ti and Kagemni include scenes of dancing monkeys. |
| 2415–2371 | Traders bring an African pygmy to dance in Egypt in the reign of Djedkare Isesy. |
| 2371–2350 | First example of Pyramid Text 310 which priests recite or sing during the muu-dance at the beginning of a funeral. |
| 2350–2170 | The funeral priest Khnumhotep describes dancing the heby-dance in an inscription on his statue. |
| 2350–2338 | Princess Watetkhethor commissions artists to decorate one entire wall of her tomb with the funeral dance, including details of its execution. |
| 2338–2298 | The Pyramid Texts carved in... |
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