• Egypt Manetho king list ( see also: List of pharaohs )
• Egypt Palermo Stone
  Palermo stone
  The Palermo Stone is a large fragment of a stele known as the Royal Annals of the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. It contains records of the kings of Egypt from the first dynasty through the fifth dynasty....
  
  
• Egypt Abydos king list
  Abydos King List
  The Abydos King List, also called the Abydos Table is a list of the names of seventy-six kings and pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, found on the walls of the Temple of Seti I at Abydos, Egypt. It consists of three rows of thirty-eight cartouches on each row...
  
  
• Egypt Turin King List
  Turin King List
  The Turin King List, also known as the Turin Royal Canon, is a hieratic papyrus thought to date from the reign of Ramesses II, now in the Museo Egizio at Turin...
  
   or Turin Papyrus
  Turin King List
  The Turin King List, also known as the Turin Royal Canon, is a hieratic papyrus thought to date from the reign of Ramesses II, now in the Museo Egizio at Turin...
  
  
• Egypt Karnak king list
  Karnak king list
  The Karnak king list was located in the southwest corner of the Akh-Menu Hall. Composed during the reign of Thutmose III, it lists sixty-one kings beginning with Sneferu from Egypt's Old Kingdom...
  
  
• Egypt Saqqara Tablet
  Saqqara Tablet
  The Saqqara Tablet in the Egyptian Museum contains one of several lists of Egyptian pharaohs surviving from the Ramesside Period. It was found in 1861 in the Saqqara tomb of Tjenry , an official of Ramesses II.The inscription lists 58 kings from Anedjib and Qa'a to Ramesses II...
  
  
• Sumerian king list
  Sumerian king list
  The Sumerian King List is an ancient manuscript originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer from Sumerian and neighboring dynasties, their supposed reign lengths, and the locations of "official" kingship...
  
  
• Babylonian king list
  First Babylonian Dynasty
  The chronology of the first dynasty of Babylonia is debated as there is a Babylonian King List A and a Babylonian King List B. In this chronology, the regnal years of List A are used due to their wide usage...
  
  
• Assyrian king list
• Iran (Persia) king list
• Greece Parian Chronicle
  Parian Chronicle
  The Parian Marble or Parian Chronicle is a Greek chronological table, covering the years from 1581 BC to 264 BC, inscribed on a stele...
  
   ( see also: Lists of rulers of Greece )
• Greek Canon of Kings
  Canon of Kings
  The Canon of Kings was a dated list of kings used by ancient astronomers as a convenient means to date astronomical phenomena, such as eclipses. The Canon was preserved by the astronomer Claudius Ptolemy, and is thus sometimes called Ptolemy's Canon. It is one of the most important bases for our...
  
   ( Ptolemy's lists of kings from Mesopotamia )
• Book of Kings
  Books of Kings
  The Book of Kings presents a narrative history of ancient Israel and Judah from the death of David to the release of his successor Jehoiachin from imprisonment in Babylon, a period of some 400 years...
  
  , Book of Chronicles collected in the Hebrew Bible
  Hebrew Bible
  The Hebrew Bible is a term used by biblical scholars outside of Judaism to refer to the Tanakh , a canonical collection of Jewish texts, and the common textual antecedent of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament...
  
   / Old Testament
  Old Testament
  The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism...
  
  
• India king list
• China king lists
• Liberian Catalogue
  Liberian Catalogue
  In compiling the history of the Early Christian Church, the Liberian Catalogue , which was part of the illuminated manuscript known as the Chronography of 354, is an essential document, for it consists of a list of the popes, designated bishops of Rome, ending with Pope Liberius , hence its name...
  
   ( a list of early Popes )
• MesoAmerican Copán Altar Q
  Copán Altar Q
  Altar Q is the designation given to one of the most notable of the rectangular sculpted stone blocks recovered at the Mesoamerican archaeological site of Copán, present-day Honduras....
  
  

See also

• List of artifacts significant to the Bible
• Bishop Ussher
• Heinrich Brugsch-Bey
• Josephus
  Josephus
  Titus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...
  
  
• Flinders Petrie
• Gardner Wilkinson