Continue the Genesis lifespans toward the Flood, with the Egyptian comparison shown in its own dating framework.
Biblical and Christian connections
Start with these entries, then explore the wider-world comparison. These are reading pointers, not a scale of elapsed time or a complete list of events.
These bars use the chart’s 4004 BC anchor and the ages in Genesis. They visualize that traditional calculation, not independently corroborated dates. Bars are clipped to this page’s period; the printed ranges show the whole lifespan. Enoch’s ending marks God taking him, not a stated death.
Genesis 5 supplies successive fatherhood ages: 130, 105, 90, 70, 65, 162, 65, 187 and 182 years. Starting at the chart’s 4004 BC anchor yields the dates above. Genesis 7 places the Flood in Noah’s six-hundredth year. Genesis 11:10–11 places Shem’s hundredth year two years after the Flood. The calculation explains this chart; it does not settle other chronological interpretations.
No exact dates are assigned to Cain’s family from the lengths or positions of its diagram lines.
Biblical chronology and Egypt: read the frameworks separately
The chart’s Biblical framework
The Flood is placed at 2348 BC by the chart’s calculation. That date is kept visible and labeled as traditional chronology.
The source poster already includes an alternative Egyptian chronology. Its broad Pyramid Age label is retained, with the museum chronology explained in the entry below.
Showing these side by side preserves the world-history comparison, but does not imply the two systems have been reconciled. The different evidence and dates remain visible.
World history
Egypt’s Old Kingdom and pyramid building
Old Kingdom approximately 2649–2130 BC in the cited museum chronology · Historical estimate
Egypt · Archaeological chronology
The Metropolitan Museum dates Egypt’s Old Kingdom approximately 2649–2130 BC and places major pyramid building within it.
These archaeological dates use a different evidence base from this resource’s Genesis chronology.
Dates: The wall chart uses a broader Pyramid Age range of 3000–2000 BC.
These are the ages in the Biblical account; the chart’s BC placement is a separate chronology calculation. The calculated 2864 BC endpoint is a calculation within the chart’s 4004 BC framework, not a BC date stated in the verse.
These are the ages in the Biblical account; the chart’s BC placement is a separate chronology calculation. The calculated 2769 BC endpoint is a calculation within the chart’s 4004 BC framework, not a BC date stated in the verse.
These are the ages in the Biblical account; the chart’s BC placement is a separate chronology calculation. The calculated 2714 BC endpoint is a calculation within the chart’s 4004 BC framework, not a BC date stated in the verse.
These are the ages in the Biblical account; the chart’s BC placement is a separate chronology calculation. The calculated 2582 BC endpoint is a calculation within the chart’s 4004 BC framework, not a BC date stated in the verse.
These are the ages in the Biblical account; the chart’s BC placement is a separate chronology calculation. The calculated 2348 BC endpoint is a calculation within the chart’s 4004 BC framework, not a BC date stated in the verse.
These are the ages in the Biblical account; the chart’s BC placement is a separate chronology calculation. The calculated 2353 BC endpoint is a calculation within the chart’s 4004 BC framework, not a BC date stated in the verse.
Genesis 11:10–11 gives Shem 100 years before Arphaxad’s birth and 500 afterward, a total of 600 years. Arphaxad is born two years after the Flood in this account.
BC means “Before Christ.” AD stands for anno Domini, Latin for “in the year of the Lord”; it does not mean “after death.” BC year numbers decrease as time moves forward: 1000 BC comes before 500 BC. AD year numbers increase. There is no year zero between 1 BC and AD 1.
BCE and CE
“Before Common Era” and “Common Era” use the same year numbering as BC and AD, respectively. You may see these labels in sources.
About, approximately, c. or ca.
The date is an estimate, not a known exact year. The abbreviations c. and ca. stand for circa, meaning “about.”
Century
A span of 100 years. The first century AD is AD 1–100; the fifth century BC is 500–401 BC.
A range or a time band
A range may describe a lifetime, reign, war or longer development; the entry says which. A comparison band groups events within a span of time, not necessarily the same year. A lifespan bar shows duration within this timeline’s chronological framework, not an independently measured date.
Timeline chronology
A date calculated within this resource’s Biblical framework.
Historical estimate
A date or range drawn from historical or archaeological research. “About” and “approximately” mark an estimate.
Dating debated
More than one dating proposal remains in use. Read the entry for the particular disagreement.
Traditional dating
Dates drawn from a culture’s historical or literary traditions, such as the traditional foundation of Rome or the Trojan War. These are not labeled as Ussher-based Biblical dates. The entry explains its basis.
Biblical account, Christian interpretation and historical evidence
A Biblical account describes what the Bible says. Christian interpretation explains a religious understanding of a text or event and may differ among Christians. Historical evidence includes documents, inscriptions, objects and other sources used to investigate the past. These descriptions identify the kind of information, not a score for its importance.
Dating disputed / undated / outside this period
“Disputed” means different dates or interpretations remain in use. “Undated” means no reliable absolute year is assigned here. “Outside this period” keeps an entry findable when its explained dates fall beyond this page’s boundaries.
Context, sources and timeline wording
Each entry works on its own. Open its notes for sources, fuller explanations and original wording from the wall chart. Significant differences in date or meaning are identified beside the entry.
Short definitions for this reading page. Entry cards also offer word help that opens in place, so you can read a definition without leaving the entry.
Chronology
The order of events and the dates assigned to them. Different calculations or sources can produce different dates.
Septuagint / LXX
Ancient Greek translations of Jewish Scriptures, commonly called the Greek Old Testament. LXX is its traditional abbreviation; the translations were not all made at one time.
Bible references and KJV
Genesis 5:5 means the book of Genesis, chapter 5, verse 5; 5:5–8 means verses 5 through 8. “II Kings” means Second Kings. Gen., Exod. and Rev. shorten Genesis, Exodus and Revelation. KJV means King James Version, the English Bible translation used by many linked passages.
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