Psammetichus
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Psammetichus or Psamtik was the name of three Egyptian
pharaohs of the 26th Saite Dynasty.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...
pharaohs of the 26th Saite Dynasty.
- Psammetichus IPsammetichus IPsamtik I , was the first of three kings of that name of the Saite, or Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt. His prenomen, Wah-Ib-Re, means "Constant [is the] Heart [of] Re." The story in Herodotus of the Dodecarchy and the rise of Psamtik is fanciful...
- Psammetichus IIPsammetichus IIPsamtik II was a king of the Saite based Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt...
- Psammetichus IIIPsammetichus IIIPsamtik III was the last Pharaoh of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt from 526 BC to 525 BC. Most of what is known about his reign and life was documented by the Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th century...