I stumbled across the weblog of an acquaintance of mine and found that he’d written a quite nice ‘History of Ancient Egypt in Ten Paragraphs’. It’s just a summary so obviously much is left unsaid, but it is still a good overview of an astonishing 3000 years of history.
An Egyptologist's blog about everything ancient Egyptian
I thought you might like to know that I’ve just written a long comment in reply to your comments about the causes of the end of the Old Kingdom.