Uncontacted contemporaries · 423 overlapping years

Egyptian New Kingdom Vedic Civilization

For 423 years — from 1,500 BCE to 1,077 BCE — both civilizations existed simultaneously. Neither this dataset nor the historical record shows any documented trade, war, or diplomatic contact between them.

1,550 BCE 500 BCE

Egyptian New Kingdom

1,550 BCE–1,077 BCE

Vedic Civilization

1,500 BCE–500 BCE

↑ Overlap begins, 1,500 BCE

Egyptian New Kingdom

Nile Valley and Levant

Egypt's wealthiest and most militarily expansive era, including the reigns of Hatshepsut and Ramesses II.

Vedic Civilization

Northern Indian subcontinent

A pastoral and agrarian Iron Age culture that transmitted the Vedas orally for centuries before any writing system recorded them.

Traits both developed independently

With no documented contact, any shared trait below represents independent development rather than transmission from one to the other.

Bronze metallurgy Irrigation agriculture Standing army Astronomical record-keeping

Egyptian New Kingdom only

Monumental architecture
Long-distance trade
Urban planning
Seafaring

Vedic Civilization only

Iron metallurgy