REL 328: History and Culture of the Ancient Near East. RJDKnauth
Napata Thebes Herakleopolis Memphis Sais Leontopolis Bubastis Tanis (=Nubia/Kush/Sudan) (upper Egypt = South) (middle) (delta) (delta) (delta) (delta)
1069 (Theban Dynasty 21
priests) Smendes
Amenemopet
Siamun (->Solomon)
945 Dynasty 22 (Libyan)à
Sheshonq (invades S-P) Osorkon
“”
“”
870 “chiefs
of
Libu”
Takelot -- civil war
818 Dynasty 23 (Libyan) Sheshonq
(related to Dyn 22)
Pedubast
Sheshonq
ca 780 Dynasty 25 Osorkon Pimay
(Nubian/Kushite) (Thebes & Herakleopolis Sheshonq
Alara controlled by Dyn 23) Takelot
Kashta (Thebes
controlled Rudamun
by Dyn 25) Iuput Osorkon
727 Dynasty 24 Sheshonq
Piye (M:Dyn 24) Tefnakht, Bakenrenef
Shabako
Shebitku
674 Assyrian Invasions (Essarhaddon)
Taharqa Necho I (Assyrian appointee)
664 Assyrian Conquest (Ashurbanipal) Dynasty 26 (Saite)
-----------------------------------------------------------[Tantamani?]--Psammetichus-------------------------------------------------
Saite Period (Thebes
controlled
by Dyn 26)
612 Babylonian Conquest of Assyria Necho II (-> killed Josiah of Judah, built canal)
Psammetichus II
Apries
Amasis (army general – usurper)
538 Persian Conquest of Babylon
525 Persian Conquest of Egypt ----------------------------------Psammetichus III------------------------------------------------